Sound as Indication of Quality

[DaveH]

Anybody consider how sound plays a role in perception of quality?

Just like the Miata, supposedly engineered to sound like a certain way, or a Harley perhaps, would it make sense to deliberatly engineer and research what sound indicates quality to knife buyers?

DaveH

 

[Chris Reeve Knives]

Have you opened and closed a Sebenza?
That's the SOUND OF QUALITY!

Chris Reeve Knives, awarded the
Blade Magazine 2000 Manufacturing Quality Award.

Mark

[This message has been edited by Chris Reeve Knives (edited 06-29-2000).]

 

[kevinb17]

Here's another one: I can suspend my Shadow IV by the lanyard and give the blade a thump near the tip. It rings like a tuning fork.

The only way to engineer sound as a desirable trait in a knife is to have the edge super sharp. Then when a prospective buyer strokes the edge with his thumb, it will produce a sound: either "daaayyyaammm" or "ouch!".

 

[FNG]

Sure; we use all of our senses.
A solid lock up is as plain as rat sign in a suger bowl.