Keeping your skills up-to-date is vital for a locksmith. The rate of change of a lot of things is far faster now than fifty or even ten years ago, and locksmithing is no different. Electronic and digital locks are now common, and locks are evolving rapidly to defeat threats from things like bumpkeys and slim-jims.

In many states in the USA you are required to have a bond (a fairly large sum of money) as well as insurance and a background check in order to legally trade as a locksmith. Of course, just like in the UK there are those who bring my profession into disrepute, by over charging, bait-and-switch

Well, it is rare for a door to require the use of the drill. However, yesterday was one of those days. Until yesterday, only one lock had been drilled all year, a deadlock on a door in Wolverhampton. Yesterday, I jinxed myself. I had a 10:30 and a 12:30 job, with an hour and three

Hey, you can’t keep a good man down, as they say. No sooner was I settled down here in Hereford & Worcester, than I was missing the job. So I made a call, and bingo! Off we go again! So, Monday and Thursday last week, I was back out on the doors. First, one kebab

I went, I saw, I (mostly) conquered. 🙂 This was my third Dutch Open, and this time, I made it into the final. I’m the first UK person ever to do so, and I’m quite proud of that, and my overall performance was very pleasing, what with the lack of practise in the previous weeks,