Honey Grading glasses

Seems that big T's have found a reliable source for Honey grading glasses, I don't think they're on the website yet but they're listed on fleabay for £35.00 including P&P. Bargain price if they're up to scratch - it does say approved by the Honey Show

....http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showpost.php?p=473918&postcount=66

Probably the ones produced in conjunction with Michael Badger MBE and Beecraft.

Now lets keep it all together chaps and not have two threads

jenkinsbrynmair said:

Seems that big T's have found a reliable source for Honey grading glasses, I don't think they're on the website yet but they're listed on fleabay for £35.00 including P&P. Bargain price if they're up to scratch - it does say approved by the Honey Show

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yes, got the same from michael badger last year for £30, they look slighlty different to our BKA set in artificial light but give the same Honey grade in natural daylight

wonder if those that paid £300 plus last year for older style now have that OMG why did i pay that feeling

Hachi said:

Now lets keep it all together chaps and not have two threads

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Fair do's - the other was in the for sale/wanted section. funnily I did a search on T's and didn't find them anyway, be interesting to compare them to my old BBJ glasses but then again - why do we really bother? went to two honey shows last year and there were some honeys shown as light that were borderline dark - and the judge awarded them a place, so obviously they're not that fussy on checking

MuswellMetro said:

yes, got the same from michael badger last year for £30, they look slighlty different to our BKA set in artificial light but give the same Honey grade in natural daylight

wonder if those that paid £300 plus last year for older style now have that OMG why did i pay that feeling

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in the photo, on the T's site, they look a little bit more polished than the set I received from Michael Badger last year for £30!

e.g. the wallet looks a bit smarter, and the actual glass pieces, look as if they have been ground, with round corners, my pieces are rough as a badger's arse, not Michaels!

einsteinagogo said:

the actual glass pieces look as if they have been ground, with round corners, my pieces are rough as a badger's arse, not Michaels!

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So just how did you measure the roughness of the Badger's arse????

Ruary said:

So just how did you measure the roughness of the Badger's arse????

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Well, if it's akin to how we were taught to identify the fathom markers on a leadline in the dark (calico, a hole surrounded by a piece of leather etc.)

You use your tongue! ​

Well, we should be calling them honey plastics not glasses - the 'light glass is near as dammit the same as the original BBJ ones but there is a substantial difference in the dark - the new 'Plastic' being obviously darker - wonder if any judges had any influence in that; noticed last year that more than one judge would not even look at dark honey unless it looked like a pot of tar.