michael adams wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Brian Gaff wrote

A friend of mine,no longer with use called it his bodger...

Someone I know has the name of greg bodger.

Cant imagine what his ancestors got up to for the life of me.

That was a joke, joyce.

Presumably they lived in huts* in the woods around
High Wycombe and made Windsor Chairs.**

This is rather more plausible, because those doing
your bodging would have got their surnames long
before their descendents did much bodging.
https://www.houseofnames.com/bodger-family-crest

Bodging use to mean using a high level of skill to
make highly practical objects using a very restricted
range of tools. Unfortunately those skills didn't
necessarily incorporate very much business
sense and so they never got rich as a result.

It's only latterly that its come to mean
making a Horlicks of something.

The High Wycombe furniture business was revived in
the 1920's by a chap called Lucian Ercolani. Although
they also made Windsor Chairs he wasn't himself
descended from bodgers. The clue is in the name.

And I bet no one he employed had a surname of bodger.

* At a time when most other yokels lived in similar or worse

** Chairs where all the joints consisted of turned ends fitted into
augered holes. And chair seats were fashioned with spokeshaves.