Dunnottar Bodgers Group

Community art project with James Harry can be seen on youtube here.

Bodging is a dying craft that dates back at least 500 years. The bodger was basically an itinerant woodland worker who specialised in making legs and stretchers, or bracers for Windsor chairs. Chair legs were the main stay of the traditional bodger's working life. Traditionally, many small chair-making factories only assembled chairs, buying in almost all of the chair parts pre-made. The parts of the chairs were to be produced cheaply and to a high standard by bodgers who worked in the local woodlands.
The Dunnottar Bodgers group consists of members working on individual green woodworking projects and on community based projects. Close links between local schools are established and groups of pupils have been attending workshops at the Bodgers site in Dunnottar for the past 4 years. Various other events have been organised in the past such as Bodgefest 2008 and a recent green woodworking training event.
	The DBG work very closely with the Forestry Commission Scotland and the DWPA . Both bodies being invaluable in their assistance to the DBG. If you come down to the woods today and see the large green offshore container open and someone working on a project come over for a chat and find out some more. Alternatively get in touch via the contacts page on this site.

Dunnottar Woods