My Sister Jacqui gave me Larry's bee's wax cappings and I am delighted!
This wax is from the caps of the cells and is collected when the caps are cut off in preparation for extracting the honey from framed combs in national hives. (With top bar hives usually the whole comb is harvested).
Here it is being melted with water....
The bees at Honeyoak have spent this season building their homes and building their numbers so I did not harvest honey this year. I intend to use a simple solar wax melter when I hopefully have lots of honey, and thus beeswax, in years to come. Live in hope!