First year beekeeper, just north of a Seattle, WA. I've got two frame-less, warre hives of carniolans that have built some impressive crosscomb, and I'm looking for some advice/someone to assuage my fears.

From the research that I've done, it seems that the common course of action here would be to "fix" the comb, though I'm afraid that that won't be possible in my case.

With exception of maybe a single bar in each hive, they've managed to build all the combs diagonally over about three bars each, meaning I can't remove one frame without removing them all, or cutting them all in half. My fear is that any attempt to fix them is going to cause a lot of damage to the comb, or kill a lot of my bees or the brood.

Is it alright if I just leave this? This box should become a honey super by the end of the summer, and I might just end up extracting it all (optimistic for a first year, I know). I was able to, very carefully, remove one of the frames in each hive, and I did see what looked like capped brood, so I'm not worried about my queens, but I am worried that future inspections might become more of a challenge.

I'm currently leaning towards leaving it and building some guides for the next boxes to go on (I drew a wax guide onto the current bars, but obviously that wasn't enough). I might even consider testing removing one bar from each of the boxes to see if the additional room might help them stick to my current guides (I have eight bars spread 3/8 of an inch apart, but maybe a little extra room would be good).

Thoughts? Preferences? I know it can be hard to give advice without pictures, but I failed to grab any yesterday, and I probably won't be opening the hive again until Sunday. Thanks!

EDIT: Thank you all who have weighed in! Starting tonight, I'm going to start gradually trying to fix the crosscomb as best as I can. Lots of great information from all of you; thank you again!