Nigel Tolley

Carrying on from Part 3, here’s a picture of the process to make your tensioner. As described in there, you can use a blank to make a tensioner, rather than needing a CNC machine – after all, it already fits! Even better, many locks come with a key that works! If it came with 2

This is a quick post about making your own locksmith cylinder repair and take it apart tools. Now, you’ll need to buy circlip pliers, or just risk stabbing yourself with a small flathead screwdriver to remove the circlip on most lock cylinders. Everything else? You can improvise. A plug follower can be made from a

Welcome to Part 3: making your own lever lock picks The other great material for making your own picks is actually the key itself. Whether a blank or a pre-cut key – often, for high security locks, the one that came with the lock, as those blanks tend to be very hard to get –

Welcome to Part 2, looking more at dimple locks than Part 1. Part 1 is here. The other great material for making your own picks is actually the key itself. Whether a blank or a pre-cut key – often, for high security locks, the one that came with the lock, as those blanks tend to

When I started picking locks, many years ago, there wasn’t an internet to ask questions of, and definitely no cheap Chinese website to order from. The first lock I picked was with a plastic coffee stirrer! This was after I watched someone break into a vending machine. As a child, I couldn’t really figure it