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Oct 15, 2024 · Thanks to that Home Counties hack, doing a bodge, or being called a bodger, now indicates to most users of modern English that the individual involved is making a substandard job, a cobbled-together affair. Yet bodgers in the real countryside still cling to their status as artisans worthy of praise.
Bodging (full name chair-bodgering[a]) is a traditional woodturning craft, using green (unseasoned) wood to make chair legs and other cylindrical parts of chairs. The work was done close to where a tree was felled. The itinerant craftsman who made the chair legs was known as a bodger or chair-bodger. According to Collins Dictionary, the use of ...
Feb 17, 2001 · Bodgers were skilled itinerant wood-turners, who worked in the beech woods on the chalk hills of the Chilterns. They cut timber and converted it into chair legs by turning it on a pole lathe, an ancient and very simple tool that uses the spring of a bent sapling to help run it.
The Oxford Dictionary would tell you that a Bodger is a person who “repairs something badly or clumsily”. But not that long ago the word Bodger had another meaning, the “Bodgers” of Britain were proud woodturners working away in the countryside of Buckinghamshire, between London and Oxford.
However, actually a bodger was a skilled craftsman that made chair legs and braces. The craft of bodging goes back about five hundred years but I am unaware of anyone making a living as a bodger these days.
The surname Bodger is the 391,429 th most commonly used family name on earth, borne by around 1 in 8,061,445 people. This last name occurs mostly in Oceania, where 43 percent of Bodger live; 35 percent live in Northern Europe and 35 percent live in British Isles.
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The itinerant craftsman who made the chair legs was known as a bodger or chair-bodger. According to Collins Dictionary, the use of the term bodger in reference to green woodworking appeared between 1799 and 1827 and, to a much lesser extent, from 1877 to 1886 and from 1939 to present.
