What a fabulous todger

Excellent work, a joy to watch.

Bradley House medieval dildo factory!

I thought i was seeing things when those two rings were moving up and down at the end

Rust on a saw blade…is a sad sight to see. But, time catches up to all things eventually.

A bodger who makes dibblers, spindles, and spurtles, huh? I do not believe this could be more British.

Is this where the Aussie slang "bodgie" came from? It means both a lout, or a dodgy tradesman .

This was wonderful, thanks for sharing.

Brilliant. It is nice to see when the cost of materials going through a shop is more than the cost of their tools. In the US there is a tendency to stock your shop with more tools than a hardware store. Btw, many years ago I had a good collegue nicknamed Bodger. He was a highly paid engineer, but he enjoyed old bangers. He would allways attempt to repair them himself, but the repair never lasted. Thereby Bodger

I have a hunch that the word "bodger" could well come originally from the french word "Boucher" meaning "butcher". As in someone who cuts up and dismembers trees like a butcher cutting up the carcass of an animal. When you think about it, even the main shell of a "Cabinet" or chest of drawers (or a kitchen cabinet in modern times) is called a "carcass", as in the carcass of a dead animal without its innards. There may also be a tie-up with the word "botch" as in "botch job". This also may have come from "boucher" as well.
I am a Cabinet Maker myself and my old workshop was on a dairy farm. The farmer, my workshop landlord, used to call me a "wood butcher" as a joke. It may well be that this term was more accurate than he thought!