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Today I had to make a key for a boat lock.
I figured some of you guys would enjoy seeing it.
In the pic with the lock opened up , you can see the 2 levers and the warding around the keyhole.
This is a masterkeyed lock. The warding is what sets the master from the change keys , so I made the key to match the warding the best i could.

for your viewing pleasure:

That is neat, I only ever seem to get to make barrel keys. Kinda looks like there is a part missing from the latching bar?

Amazing work. Would enjoy watching the actual making tho. Got any pics to post?

@jones:
The lock is complete. There is a locking pawn under the tail of the latch , that connects to the door handle.

@ Papa Gleb:
No sorry , it was a busy day , I did not have the time to make more pics.

If you look at the latch, there is a filed out section where a bar once connected, just to the right of the "X" stamped midway along the latch, which most likely allowed the key to pull the latch back. I understand that You have not removed any of the parts, but whoever did originally construct this lock prolly didn't expend the time it took to file out that square section as a hobby.

I see much the same type construction in modern-day mortise locksets, but they usually have lots more parts. Really exciting when going to take them apart. Now I just clean them with brake cleaner and grease them from the outside, unless I have a fixture to fit them on. The fixture has pegs at the spindle & bolt T-turn holes and keeps all the parts from flying when the case is opened.
Nothing like spending part of the day trying to put all the parts back together on something you have never seen together before. Among my most-hated mortise lock is the Xbouvet After the last few I have promised myself to Never open the case on another of them.

The latch bar notch is milled out the same on both sides so it can be flipped over to change the hand of the lock for left hand or right hand, inward outward swinging doors is what it looks like to me. No missing parts.

Richard

That makes sense, so this lock is post industrial revolution?

The boat is from 1932