Bodging

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 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.[2]

  1. ^ Burchfield, R.W, ed. (1972). Supplements to the OED. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. p. 311. ISBN 0-19861-1153.
  2. ^ "Definition of Bodger". Collins Dictionary.


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