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Reducing noise from hand tool work, mostly from gouges and chisels, is essential to me since I’m practicing mostly inside an apartment with shared walls and I’m currently actively exploring the best solution. Do you all think the mallet striking the chisel handle is really the noise producer? My theory is that it’s everything else that makes the most noise: the wood being stricken hitting the bench top, the workbench possibly vibrating the floor (wood floor in my case) and thirdly, the echoing of those two.
I’m going to try the shelf liner on the bench top as previously mentioned, but I think a very thick, dense bench top with a very heavy bench may do the trick. I’m currently working on a portable benchtop/vise I made, which includes a sort of cavity for the vise, all of which I think is very noisy.
Beyond that I imagine lining the immediately surrounding walls with something to absorb the sound waves would help too.
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