Making a Key for an Antique Lock
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ธ.ค. 2021
- I'm betting that many of you know Natalie Wynn and her TH-cam channel, ContraPoints. I've mentioned her before and praised her work so if you're not already subscribed to her, by all means do that...
... so, yes, as some of you saw from me on Instagram, I had the pleasure of working on a lock in her home since I was in Maryland and able to stop by. This video shows the process of making a key for a cabinet of hers that was heretofore inoperable.
Enjoy!
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thank you for beautiful key, and yesss lock reinstallation video please! 🥺
Wow, Contra on a Deviant channel, mind blown! Love ya both!
Sounds good ... I look forward to it, and maybe to one more gorgeous melody on your piano 💚😊
As a somewhat lapsed pianist who doesn't have the space or budget for an actual pianoforte right now, and as a locksport enthusiast... we need a crossover vid of Nat caressing the keys while Dev reinstalls the lock... if you guys are up for it. :D
@@sixstringedthing I don't know if that degree of collaboration is what's in order or not... might feel a little too much like "work" in some ways, but I'm grateful to share in any music that gets created there.
Watching a random video and Contrapoints? O.o
"Nat' is nine kinds of devine"
Yes, yes she is
At least one of those kinds is Divine from Pink Flamingos
Yes, serious understatement
The joy being "that friend" with obscure skill sets, in a good way. Leads to some interesting places you never expect.
I ended up having dinner with a international soccer player and his family because I was that guy who could fix the lights for the makeshift field out the back when the local kids wanted to have a kick around.
Have friends with diverse and different skill sets to your own and help each other out, your life will be richer for it.
I also want to be invited to contrapoints home full of set decoration to pick locks for her, this is highly unfair
"I feel your pain" - B. Clinton.
It was very cool, I won't lie 😁
What a great story and a wonderful experience. This is exactly why I got interested in picking locks. Not to break into somewhere I wasn't supposed to be, but to use my skills to help people access things they own that were previously inaccessible.
This was one of the most fun things I got to do when I was a locksmith.
Selfish request. Can you show us how to pick that type of lock? I have only ever seen the standard pinned/wafer lock picked and being able to open weird old crap would be neat.
Check BosnianBill's TH-cam. He was seriously into picking lever locks towards the end of his TH-cam career.
th-cam.com/users/bosnianbill
@@CrowManyClouds Hey! Thanks man.
you need a special set of wire picks and a custom tensioner so most people have to either make a key or modify an old one to work as a tensioner, it's really annoying
Lock Noob and Andy Mac have a bunch of lever lock picking videos, especially Andy Mac who makes and sells tools for picking them
And this is why I'm subbed.
Thanks y'all.
Further evidence that everyone knows everyone in TH-cam
Nicely done. I especially appreciate the key blank selection which suits both the client and the piece. I like being able to do those special touches instead of just giving them an Ilco barrel key.
When I was coming up at the old shop I ended up specializing in antiques for a couple reasons..... I was fortunate enough to learn from a 70 year old, third generation locksmith, who'd literally grown up in that shop, and who's parents were friends with the Houdini's (so ideal person to learn from) in Savannah, GA (so LOADS of antiques) and also because while I love working on antique locks for the history of the pieces and the "by hand" nature of the work, none of the other locksmiths wanted anything to do with it.
Now due to (looks around, sighs,) everything, 99% of my work is industrial, which pays the bills, but like you said, it's kinda boring compared to working on antiques where you never know what you're gonna find until you look at it....
It could be a low security single or two lever lock (and it usually is)... BUT I've also unlocked and made keys for Hobbs 5 lever security models (which if they're unmodified are a PITA to both unlock and making keys for) and even a Bramah 5 slider (I knew the mechanism so picked it in about an hour including setup, but making a key took some serious machining since I couldn't source an original blank) .... Now I just need a Chubb and I get the Crystal Palace trifecta.
I love when cool people who I follow for very different reasons come together ♥️
Oddly enough, I just came in from cutting the steel I will forge into a lock and key tomorrow and watched this video. Bravo! I suspect the key I'll make tomorrow won't be quite as ornate as the one you worked on. Or perhaps you've inspired me to go beyond. Thanks!
The piano music was a really nice touch. Never wanted to win a giveaway so much, also this all thing made me really happy.
This video came at the perfect time for me! I have an antique dresser with lever locks on all the drawers and was just talking to my sister about making a working key for it 😁
Those are some really beautiful keys. This was neat. Thanks for posting this!
Nice. :) That's fun
What a cool piece for her, it looks lovely
Yeah, I wanted to make it very nice. 😊
Came for the Contrapoints crossover, stayed for the pretty keys. :) Weirdly hyped for the installation video!
Neat video.
The house I grew up in had skeleton key locks. More secure than today's bedroom locks that can be opened with the edge of a nickel or a tiny screw driver.
This is an unexpected intersection of my TH-cam playlists! The only thing missing is Abom79 milling a new (something) to put it back together. :)
Feels like the wrong sort of scale for Abom79. Needs to be closer to a classic movie bank vault for him.
Abom does real big stuff usually - this would be a good job for This Old Tony or Clickspring.
I'm going to keep a look out for some older locks to fiddle with. It looks fun.
what an unexpected crossover!
Sad I missed this giveaway, I love antique keys. Also nice absinthe.
You have inspired me to take a second look at some of our antiques, to see if I can make some extra keys for doors that used to have them, but don’t any more.
I will have to find some key blanks, but I would hope that’s not too hard.
Thanks!
Discovering this TH-cam crossover made me punch the air cheering out loud at 2:30 AM. Awesome.
pretty cabinet, pretty lock, gorgeous girl
it's awesome to see your process!
Very cool Dev! It's a lovely looking piece of furniture, I'm sure Nat is very grateful that it's also functional now too. The house where I currently live has lever locks on all the bedroom doors (no keys anywhere) but I haven't set to tinkering around with them yet, so this was pretty interesting. My sister loves collecting antique keys, the more ornate the better, so fingers crossed for the giveaway!
Those are beautiful keys
I do this several times per month! Neat video
Thanks! This video makes me think that we should be donating old keys to lock smiths.
Brave man, Dev, no marking out of how much to file, what the limits are, etc...
Happy Holiday season, Dev!
Never clicked so fast in my life
I hope it was worth it! 👍😁🗝️
Thanks for another post. You have me yet another excuse to not get up for a few minutes. Cheers and be safe.
Thanks for enjoying!
That key look awesome
Thanks! 🗝️
Nice work!
Muy linda llave para el muble, gran trabajo. Saludos
¡Gracias por sus cumplidos! 👍😁
i would love the keys i use alot of them on haunted house costumes, wate land and steam punk projects
Simple lock, but a beautiful one. All my interior doors have a similar style lock. Just larger as they're full size mortise locks. I don't have a key for them unfortunately. Not that i have any need to lock any of them to be fair, would be kind of cool to have a key for them however.
Hope everyone is staying safe, and taking care.
My old home's interior door keys were similar, and they seemed to work with pretty much the basic ilco blank or cut to whatever similar key I found at an estate sale.
Might be worth taking it to a locksmith, seeing if they are able to get you a 🗝️ on the cheap and easy.
@@phillyphakename1255 i could. I'm not terribly worried about it however. I have absolutely no plans to lock any of the interior doors at all. Would it be cool to have a key? Sure? Is it a priority? Not at all. Just one of those oddities id like to have.
very cool thanks bud
So cool, your videos are very interesting
Thanks!
great video and story thanks
You're most welcome 😁
Very nice. But I wonder what Uri Tuchman would have created.
Neat!
Do you have any advice for unlocking a medium size jewelry box with hinge lid and two drawers that we have lost the key for and would like to get it open and have a new key made?
Next time please film opening the lock! LPL style!
This is not the crossover I expected to want
Decorating with a little bit of flair? Somehow I never expected that.
Great job and a nice furniture piece - how do we get on the mailing list??
Link in video description ;)
As soon as you said "gorgeous antique", i knew who.
These keys are gorgeous. What piece is the soundtrack today?
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Hi, can you tell me where to buy the key? I have four locks that are the very same one you showed in your video.
I really enjoyed watching your video. My wife recently " misplaced" the key that fits all of the cabinet drawers on a beautiful old Hutch we have. The locks look identical to the one in this video it was a pretty simple key. Thankfully one of of the doors is unlocked and open so I could remove the lock and send it to you if you were interested in another project... help we need a new key. Please let me know if this is possible and how I could contact you I live in Maryland thanks, John Luke
I wonder what towns in North Carolina because I live here and it would be cool if it was from my small town in Sampson county
Time for the proper dremel bit!
How to but the this tipe of locks
2 of you may be
TIL: there is such a thing as ein deutscher Schrank! Cheers from Schrank-country :D
Are you purposefully lighting the background and yourself differently? The fur curtains almost look like a digital background. This is by no means a critique, just an observation, your set looks good.
And the lockpicking/keymaking part was great too! I just pay attention to weird things.
As far as I can tell, Dev uses a couple of floor lights to light the fur and also backlight himself a bit. They seem to be a cooler white than his key light. This can make the background look fake in a couple of ways.
Firstly, the background being lit with a slightly different colour than the foreground creates a visual disconnect. Secondly, the white fringing from the backlight makes him pop out from the background, but to the semi-trained eye can look like fringing from a poor chroma-keying (greenscreen) effect, with too much correction for colour bleed.
Thirdly, the big, well lit green table in front of him causes a green cast on his body, meaning there's even morr difference between the foreground and background lighting.
Finally, the foreground and background are lit from different directions. The fur is lit from below at quite a steep angle, while Dev and the table are lit from above with a relatively shallow angle. This again causes a visual disconnect between the foreground and background.
I quite like the overall effect because it helps separate the foreground and background, giving depth to the scene, and makes the fur wall look even more weird and alien looking than it already does. If I did anything differently I might put a very light pink gel on the key light to counteract the green cast from the table, but that's easily solved with colour correction in post, if desired.
@@zeebeezoey I love the details you're sharing here! Thanks for educating me and I think in future I'll still tweak the lighting a bit. I have a new phone and it needs far less light overall so I have my LED panels turned way down.
I just realised Deviant is an inside-out furry.
Just a thought. Why not do collabs with youtubers where you teach them a skill? (Some basic lock picking) They get content for their channels and your channel gets its name out there more.
What were you drinking? It doesn't look quite green enough to be "The Last Word".
What're you drinking? Looks like a Corpse Reviver...
Little click out of one, and it's open :)
I have a bomb shelter and have not key can you help me
Before you give those keys away might wanna make sure they don't fit other locks in her house
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Antique lock? Tell that to the people who keep putting them in traffic control cabinets.
The way I'd do it is to get the dimensions and 3D print a mold and cast it from some metal.