Took delivery yesterday of a new pick for the Mauer 71111, an 8 lever key operated safe lock, which just happens to be the most commonly used safe lock in the world. Made by Jason Jones, himself an expert safe opener & toolsmith (he’s given up the cowboy crowded, low profit ‘locksmithing’ part of the […]
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I do enjoy going to sport picking events. There are now several across the UK, and I know the organisers of most of the events, and sometimes even help out. Professionally, I have had static from quite a few people, generally the older locksmiths, who are against teaching anything to those outside the industry. However,
Following some tests last weekend with the world’s fastest lock impressioner, Jos Weyers, I am now moving ahead with the development of a couple of new tools to help the everyday locksmith to master this very effective system for lock opening. More info soon. Unsure who will be the distributor yet, but currently manufacturing of
WARNING: Spoilers above. The UAP Tradelocks “Dragon’s Den” competition was won by Tony Carter of ARC locksmiths, with his idea of an anti-drill plate for locks. Well done to Tony for getting over half the total votes!
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Just a quick shout out to our new search engine optimisation team at www.ReallyGoodSEO.co.uk who are taking over maintaining and promoting the Discreet Security site in the now very crowded locksmithing market. It is difficult to find time when out doing actual locksmithing & emergency door openings, so a low cost but effective service is
This picture is of a slightly roughly handmade cutaway cylinder. The only way to become a good locksmith is to love locks, and love, in this case, means destroying the occasional lock to see what makes that particular brand tick. This is one of the new UAP British Standard (you can see the Kitemark) euro
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Obvious, really, but if you decide to try drilling your own lock, for whatever reason, wear eye protection! Hitting the hardened pins designed to protect your lock from a drill attack is very likely to shatter the drill bit, and generally the energy goes into the bit as velocity. Losing an eye for the sake
There’s something interesting I’ve noticed about houses where warrants come up. Now, this is a weak hypothesis, but it seems that there are more warrants on north facing houses than south facing houses. I’m going to have to start tracking this, and see if it holds up to scrutiny.
There is so much I can’t write about on here that is truly fascinating. Well, fascinating to me, at least. However, it is important to me, and to my clients, that their information doesn’t get out onto the internet. While it is unlikely that anyone would misuse anything put up on this blog with any
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