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I've got a hunch that the smell mostly comes from how you render it- with or without water- but I'm still experimenting. I think you end up with a cleaner, less smelly fat if you render it in water but rendering it without water is certainly faster, and simpler. I've heard about the potato trick...

I rendered 17 pounds of pretty clean beef suet recently and got 14+ pounds of tallow. That's about 80%. I'd expect you'd get less, maybe a lot less, from beef fat proper depending on how you rendered it.

Honey comb IS made out of beeswax, by bees of course :) It melts at around 146° F. When you melt honey comb you get mostly pure beeswax and some amount of "slumgum" which is mostly propolis with some other gunk. Combs sold as comb honey are pretty much pure beeswax.