Martha, pine should really be painted because of how it weathers. Cedar can be oiled because of how it weathers. If you oil pine you are likely going to get a shorter life (but it does depend on the exposure of your hive to the elements). Also, when painting you really want to apply two to three coats minimum. And don’t forget that when you oil you should be reapplying oil at least once per year (end of season).
Of course, none of the above helps with wax moth and SHB 
They just got 2 coats of primer and 3 coats of paint. They cleaned up great! They are drying in my garage and when we get a good dry day I’ll give my bees an inspection and change the brood boxes and work the ones they are in. I sealed the flow hive roof better as well. It rains quite a bit here in Tennessee! Thank you for your suggestions. 
Well, those prongy sticky out bent bits of wire are meant to be trapped by the wedge in the top bar of the frame. If you put the foundation into the frame upside down, the wire ends can prong your fingers and tickle the bees… 
Ok after much searching I’ve found it, The Housel Theory.
It appears there is a right way up for unwired foundation…
I cut some mainly sealed brood out of a big frame and put it into a smaller frame and then back in the hive. A few days later I notice the cells seem upside down. Does anyone know if the bees will eventually fix the cells and make them the right way up?
Probably not, unless the comb gets damaged in some way. They don’t really recycle wax - once the main structure is there, it stays pretty much that way.
Dan, I did some of my own research on that subject after a discussion with @adagna. I don’t think that the bees fix the cells & make them the right way up, however the bees still use the comb when it’s upside down.
Face down, or horizontal also works.
Thanks both of you.
So I guess the nectar will flow out if they ever use it for that purpose. I should scrape it back to the foundation at some stage.
Just thinking Dan, I don’t think there’ll be any need to do that. If you decap the frame flush or slightly deeper before extracting the honey, when the bees refill it with honey, they’ll probably correct the last bit of comb before they cap it. Anyway it will be good to see what happens if you leave it as it is.
Thanks Jeff- I just assumed that they might not get to the capping stage as the nectar might run out of the cells -as they seem to be slightly downward facing, so in other words, they might not get past square one. It is all either brood or empty cells at the moment. I think it could be good to do a test on it as you suggest.
Yes, it’ll be an interesting exercise. The bees may reconstruct it to suit themselves. We’ll wait & see. I don’t remember what happened to that frame in the video. I should have let them fill it with honey, then take notes.