How to make a bee-comb or bee-pick

Well, you all know how I feel about street spam. Whenever I see it on my walks, I pull out the metal posts to use for garden stakes, and throw the signs in a dumpster. They're illegal, so yanking them is just like picking up trash.

	I've now found another use for the sign itself: Making a bee pick!

You may recall the one I saw at bee club, with a nice carved handle. It was suggested we could make our own using cardboard and duct tape. But the spam sign is even better. It's durable and waterproof and it comes with perfect corrugated channels for holding those bamboo skewers in alignment.

I cut out a rectangle, taped the bottom edge with foil tape (which may not be necessary), and carefully put a couple drops of Gorilla Glue into every other channel.
Then I inserted the skewers and adjusted them so the middle ones stick up a little more, and laid the pick flat to dry. I put a brick on top to keep the skewers aligned and in the same plane.
Voilà! My very own bee pick.

I'm thinking, looking at the original, that maybe I should have a skewer in every channel, and I should make it wider. The glue probably oozed up around the skewers because of the tape across the bottom. So we'll call this one a prototype. It took all of five minutes to make, so that's OK. I'll make another.

I'm calling it a "bee pick" because "bee comb" is too easily confused with "honeycomb" and the original reportedly started out as two afro-picks taped together. Soon I'll be ready to tease those bees into place, too.