[modeleng] Re: Swarf!
- From: "Terry Lane" <tel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:22:47 +1100
Nope, a bodger was a man who made certain parts of chairs, on a piecework
basis - generally lived in the forest where the raw material was and used a
pole lathe erected on site from a convienient sapling.
> 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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