Roy wrote:
Andre Jute wrote:
In "The Piano Factory", a novel by Jonathan Davies, I came across
another derivation for a Bodger as someone who knocks things up in a
makeshift way. Bodger's according to Davies was a firm that made cheap
beech furniture.

Ring any bells?

I don't think so. Bodgers were polelathe turners who specialised in
turning for furniture (legs, etc). They were prolific in the High
Wycombe area (where one of the surviving manufacturers of quality beech,
ash and elm furniture, Ercol, started up).

So yes, Bodgers made furniture - but it wasn't a firm. Unless someone
knows otherwise!

Knocking things up in a makeshift way certainly bears no resemblance to
the skills of the original bodgers. I suspect the way the the turning
was done looked makeshift to those who didn't know what they were watching.

Roy.

Bodgers love mashed potatoes

oh no, hang on, that was badgers

daz
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