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WW Journal had a post today about woodworking terms that aren't common. Every endeavor has its terminology. I am reminded that when we have a volunteer group at the furniture bank, we generally ask if anyone is familiar with a router. A bunch of hands go up, then we say, the woodworking tool, not the wifi type. Then most of the hands go down. I'd have to add Finger joint (not a knuckle) grain (not oats or wheat) birdseye (not the avian kind) chamfer carcass (not a dead body) joint (not the 420 kind you smoke) jig (not the Irish dance) Any you could add? Weird Woodworking Words Last week I used the term bodger, which is someone who turned wooden legs — typically for Windsor chairs and most often out in the forest. A friend of mine told me it was a new word for her, which got me thinking. Our craft has some odd terms that most of us take for granted. Dado comes to mind as well as rabbet (that’s rebate to our Brit friends). Actually, bodgers were one of three craftspeople who built chairs, with benchmen and framers completing the trio (this was news to me). As I poked around for other archaic woodworking terms, I found another trio of note: nave, spokes and felloes. As I have never made a wooden cartwheel, the terms nave and felloes were new to me. Some terms that I have used but also forgotten are arris, fleam, in the white, mullion and joyner. Seems I am a bit of a word nerd.
