I am delighted to host this paper on warded locks for my friend Richard Phillips. If you are familiar with locks at all, you’ll likely know that warded locks were, for centuries, what protected almost anything of value, and they are still in use today on churches and other old buildings, with original locks that […]
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One of my happy customers, at Saint Locks in Telford, bought one of the now fairly famous Doodlebug EPGs (electric pick gun) from my lock tool shop and has sent a few photos of locks he has opened. Here is the latest one, a shot of one of two of the latest British Standard Yale
Here’s a shot of a lock destroyed by snapping. Not the usual, it came off an aluminium door, and this photo shows the way the lock case has pretty much exploded under the force of the attack. The ‘locksmith’ who did this should be prosecuted. They left the two locks on the door broken! This
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