WARDED LOCK PICKS
the cool old homebrew ones were found among a retired locksmiths belongings at a yardsale.
(among many other neat old barrel,skeleton and flat keys)
THEsourman wrote:Where do you get this stuff from?
magician59 wrote:That's the sort of thing I used to do before I ever knew store-bought picks were available! Nice quarry.
magician59 wrote:They are pass keys for mortise locks. The "cylinders" were surface-moumted tubes that were warded. The operating keys were flat steel with parallel sides that were cut to pass the wards, and the prongs fit into the actuator, which had drilled holes to receive them.
Cutting the pass keys like in the photo bypasses every possible ward; and they became so popular that the key blank manufacturers just made them like that.
Only thing I don't recall is the brand of lock they fit.
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