Why the title ‘bodger’?

While people today might associate the word ‘bodge’ with a bad or botched job, historically a bodger — a maker of legs and braces for Windsor chairs — was considered a skilled tradesman. Some speculate that the term ‘bodger’ is derived from ‘badger’, because both a badger and a bodger spend their entire days in the woods! Others say it is because when it comes to chair making, bodgers only did half the job.