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   jazzdogg | Dec 05, 2005 02:06am | #1

   Amen, brother.

   When I take one of the books he wrote off of the shelf now, they have a far more significant meaning to me since his untimely passing.

   More than anything else, this is the season for remembrances.

    

   -Jazzdogg-

   "Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Gil Bailie

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   alanplanesaw | Dec 05, 2005 02:29am | #2

   Amen!!!!

   Alan - planesaw

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   creekwood | Dec 05, 2005 02:44am | #3

   When he passed, it left a void that is unable to be filled. We lost a fine gentleman.

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   Chairwright | Dec 05, 2005 04:03am | #4

   What I remember most about Jon Arno was his curiosity for detail which drove his work and provided us with invaluable knowledge, his logical approach to matters based on real knowledge, not merely the emotional attachment to wood (which I'm sure he had but subdued for the sake of objective knowledge), and his courage to stand up for what he knew was correct.  His passing left a gaping hole in our world which will not be soon filled.  Chairwright

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   donpapenburg | Dec 05, 2005 06:23am | #5

   All of what everyone else said and the fact that he never looked down on any one .  He would reply to every Q that was posted of him in a wise and factual manner

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   Piffin | Dec 05, 2005 06:27am | #6

   Wow, This is the first I've heard this.I am more frequent at breaktime, but it seems like just a few weeks ago I was enjoying a conversation with him here.
   Do you mind saying how he passed?

    

    

   Welcome to the
   Taunton University of Knowledge FHB Campus at Breaktime.
    where ...
   Excellence is its own reward!

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   LeeGrindinger | Dec 05, 2005 04:35pm | #8

   Paul, Jon died of cancer, cancer of just about everything in his body. He was actually quite long lived when compared to the rest of his bloodline living longer than any of his male predecessors, they had a rough time with cancer.Nonetheless, as others have said, his time was far too short and his contributions to us woodworkers were immense.LeeP.S. How's the wedding coming along?

   Edited 12/5/2005 8:49 am ET by LeeGrindinger

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   Wolfman | Dec 05, 2005 04:44pm | #9

   I love the articles he used to publish in FWW about the different woods. Well written and very informative. He is missed.

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   Piffin | Dec 06, 2005 02:37am | #15

   Thanks Lee, Cancer is a bad act for everyone connected to the victim of it. I wasn'5t here enough to know.
   I'll email you about the other 

    

   Welcome to the Taunton University of Knowledge FHB Campus at Breaktime. where ... Excellence is its own reward!

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   garth | Dec 05, 2005 07:58am | #7

   I thought about Jon just a few days ago when I had some question about bloodwood. We have lost a fine gentleman and a vast amount of knowledge.

   Garth

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   ChipTam | Dec 05, 2005 06:09pm | #10

   Yes, he's really missed.  I started a couple of threads with titles like "Jon Arno, are you out there?" and "A question for Jon Arno".  Usually, Jon would give a long thoughtful response to my question the same day as it was asked. I know that many others would use Jon as a valued resource in the same way.  Jon and I shopped at the same hardwoods lumber yard but I never actually met him.  I now wish I had.

   ChipTam

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   MBerger | Dec 05, 2005 09:07pm | #11

   Thanks Philip and the rest of you for your kind posts remembering Jon Arno. All of us here at Taunton share a similar feeling of appreciation for all that he taught us.

   After seeing this post I got the idea to create an ongoing feature on FineWoodworkingNetwork.com to collect all the posts Arno contributed to Knots that dealt with wood.

   Here is a link to that page. I'm going to create a new post in the materials forum that I will update continually with more links to Arno's archived discussions. If you come across a post by Arno that you would like to share, send me the thread number and I'll add it to the page.

   Matt Berger
   Managing Editor
   FineWoodworkingNetwork.com

   
   

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   Edited 12/5/2005 3:24 pm ET by MBerger

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   creekwood | Dec 05, 2005 09:43pm | #12

   Matt, I think that's a great idea. That's a wealth of information.

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   Kevin | Dec 05, 2005 10:13pm | #13

   That's a great idea! Like others, I've had questions about some relatively obscure species of wood and my mind would turn automatically to Jon... and then I'd remember that he and his immense library of knowledge are no longer available.

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   robert1 | Dec 06, 2005 12:29am | #14

   Thank You.

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   Napie | Dec 06, 2005 05:11am | #16

   And let's not forget his well reasoned arguments in the old cafe, no matter if you agreed with his positions, (I did), he was always a real gentleman, far more than could be said of many who opposed him.

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   robert1 | Dec 06, 2005 05:15am | #17

   <<far more than could be said of many who opposed him>>

   It's easier to be nice when you know that you're right(no pun intended)!

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   Midnight | Dec 07, 2005 01:26am | #18

   I'm glad to see I'm not the only guy who misses the auld bugger.. 

   Mike Wallace

   Stay safe....Have fun

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   creekwood | Dec 07, 2005 04:14am | #19

   Hopefully, someone will let his family know we've been thinking of him, and how much the woodworking world thought of him.

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    bleubassplyr | Dec 07, 2005 10:55pm | #20

    Jon was a humble, generous person. He's missed and remembered fondly. Here we are a year later, and thanks to FWW, he'll still be teaching us something.

    There are more old drunkards than old doctors.  Ben Franklin