[modeleng] Re: Swarf!
- From: "Dave Beaman" <davebeaman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 21:30:08 -0000
Me thinks I ain't a bodger, he sounds too skilful! Having trained as an
electrical engineer, as a mechanical engineer, I make a good dustman. (Or
should that be swarfman??). I get there in the end but I bet it takes me
twice as long as you guys and without the waste and swearing. What the heck,
I enjoy myself and it gets me out of the way of SWMBO.
Dave.
----- Original Message -----
From: "shep" <shep.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 3:40 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Swarf!
Hi Peter
According to my records, one form of Bodger was the chap who sat in the
beechwoods in the Chilterns, surrounding High Wycombe; put two spikes in the
ground, cut living branches from the wood, placed them between the centres
of the spikes; wrapped string around the branch, and attached this to a
springy overhead bough; brought the bough down with one foot, and then on
the return stroke, turned the round 'dowels' that appear in the back of a
'Windsor' chair. He used a heavy gouge, which is was recently still sold
as a 'bodger's gouge'. He sold these to the many furniture factories in
High Wycombe at an agreed price per gross. This activity was still being
used in the woods, right up to the beginning of WWII! I am not aware of
the bodger's role in shoemaking.
Here endeth the first lesson!
We used skivers in bookbinding, to make the coloured 'labels' on a
leather-bound book. The skiver is the thin upper surface of the leather
slit away from the main leather - the other piece is sold as chamois
leather. The bookbinder took a sharp knife and and 'feathered' the skiver
all around to a tapered finish, so that when glued onto the spine, there is
no perceptible ridge. Perhaps the 'Skiver' in shoemaking did something
similar? These great leather binding skills are sadly almost extinct,
except in a few specialist binders, who charge thousands of pounds for very
special bindings.
Cheers! Hubert.
----- Original Message -----
From: <peter.chadwick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 3:20 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Swarf!
> Originally, a bodger was someone who had something to do with a certain
> process involved in shoe manufacture.
> Damned if I can remember what it was, but it was actually a skilled
> trade....
> Similarly a skiver - he carefully sliced into the leather soles to arrange
> for stitching to be hidden.
>
> Peter Chadwick
> Swindon
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