On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:27:14 -0700, 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?

Sure. That's the standard usage of "bodger" in the UK, at any rate.

I thought "bodge" was a polite synonym for "****".

Beech is a light inexpensive wood but guitars can be made form it
that have a nice poppy sound. That's also true of larch and poplar and
some other such woods.

On Sep 15, 2:27 pm, Bret Ludwig wrote:
I thought "bodge" was a polite synonym for "****".

Ludwig, for you *everything* is a synonym for "****".
If you can't get a woman -- and we all understand why -- mailorder a
rubber doll.

Beech is a light inexpensive wood but guitars can be made form it
that have a nice poppy sound. That's also true of larch and poplar and
some other such woods.

Mr Root