Fellow woodworker Andy Rooney dies at 92

[Bruce Page]

I always liked Andy Rooney. I remember seeing a TV segment on his Neander shop. He was making some really nice chairs.



RIP

[Kent A Bathurst]

+1

Mr Rooney was a one-of-a-kind iconic figure.

If you did not know, the New York Times obit writers are in a class by themselves - I read them for all types of people - big, small, famous, and unknown. It is like reading a short essay on history.

Today's NYT obit for Mr Rooney: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/us...-at-92.html?hp

[Paul McGaha]

I liked him a lot.

PHM

[Rich Engelhardt]

My wife just told me Mickey Rooney had died...

[Mark Engel]

My wife just told me Mickey Rooney had died...

That particular Mr. Rooney is still kicking around.

[Rich Engelhardt]

That particular Mr. Rooney is still kicking around.

Yep - like I told my wife,,,,"OMG, we killed of poor Mickey again!".

It's kind of an inside family joke.

It was about 15 years ago, my wife, and I and her parents were having a heated discussion about what Mickey Rooney died in.
We all had egg on our face when we found out he was (& still is! ) alive.

[Brian Tymchak]

I always liked Andy Rooney. I remember seeing a TV segment on his Neander shop. He was making some really nice chairs.


RIP

I always wondered if he was a woodworker. That crotch walnut slab desk in his office is beautiful.

[Mike Archambeau]

I always wondered if he was a woodworker. That crotch walnut slab desk in his office is beautiful.

Yes he made that desk himself from a tree that had grown in his front yard. I wonder what will become of that desk. I believe CBS plans to leave his office unoccupied as a sort of shrine to the great one. But the family may want that heirloom desk............

[Ken Fitzgerald]

His humor always made me laugh. Often it was laced with a slice of irony that made me laugh and ponder.