I just received my aluminum model Exo-M in the mail today, and I absolutely love this knife, but it’s so damn loud! I feel the urge to fidget with it, but I worry that I’m annoying my neighbors. It’s so loud and piercing, it sounds like a Garand ping every time I open a package.
Does anyone have advice for noise reduction on knives? I thought about maybe putting a thin layer of epoxy or silicone or something along the ends of the frame that make contact with the blade, but I feel like the tolerances are so tight that any amount of material being present could possibly interfere with opening/closing the knife, so I don’t want to risk something like that just yet. I suspect that any kind of coating I could apply would also just peel off almost immediately, anyway.
Any ideas? Or should I just learn to live with it?
I knew you’d have some good suggestions! You make a good point about the resonance, and I think trying to dampen that will have a greater impact than the impact zones at the ends of the track. I’ll do some experimenting with tapes and see what happens. Thanks for the ideas!