When I opened the top box, this is what they had built in the space. Any honey that had been stored in the comb was already consumed. I took this piece of empty comb to melt down later for wax.
My first task was to transfer the eight frames from the base into a typical ten frame box. Most of these frames were empty drawn comb, as the cluster had migrated to the upper portion of the hive. I filled in the empty space with two frames full of honey that I had.
The main cluster was in the first small box, which you can see above. Each one of those wooden slats had comb built on it, but it was not as easy as lifting the slat to pop out the comb. The comb was also attached to the sides, and in prying the slats up I often broke the comb from the slat and had to pull the comb out in pieces. It was a very sloppy job. Some of the comb I just put in a bag. There was loads of honey in it, but since I had a buch of Langstroth frames full of honey, I didn't really need to go through the trouble of transferring this mess of honeycomb into the new hive. I'll extract the honey later and melt down the comb for the wax. Only a couple frames had brood, and those I place in empty frames with rubber bands to hold them in place. In the midst of the mess, I didn't stop for pictures. I wish I had. 
Here the tranfer is complete and the hive is closed up. The bees are stirred up, but still pretty gentle, as is typical in spring. I tried to make sure that I got as many bees as possible into the new hive. I didn't see the queen, so I can't be sure she survived the upheavel, but I tried to save as many bees as I could. I'll check the hive in a couple days to make sure they are settling in and in a couple weeks to make sure the queen is laying eggs and the hive is rebounding. The whole process took over an hour and I was a sticky mess by the end.
