Mon Jan 12, 2015 1:16 pm by Papa Gleb
Proof that when in doubt, take a break and hit the books will yield results. This is exactly what I did and the results the below. During my break, I seen a post by Harvey in which he brought up the question of knife edging. I believe the post was several years old but he also linked a 2 hour youtube video were in the middle they touched the topic of impressioning and knife edged a blank but what I noticed from it was the way they filed. No perpendicular but at an angle which I tried and was very success. This method yield marks you can see with a naked eye and with bad vision. Yes that visible. Plus the marks also give you depth so instead of a stroke or two you can see that you need 3 or 5 or which ever amount of stroke. So this lock that gave me hell, I impressioned a key for it in 20m lol. Once the plug turned I stopped the angle filing and went back to perpendicular filing just to make sure the cuts arent thin enough so it will ruin the key. In short, the angle filing makes the blank cuts so thin that the pins just crush it into place.
You can also see how much time and blanks this locks too. It just goes to show that if one method doesnt work, it simply means key going until you find what does work.
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