impressioned my first key!!!!!!!!!!

by **Squirrel_Cop** » 18 Jan 2011 4:15

Hooray for me! After two nights of trying, one broken blank and two abandoned attempts I finally made a working key! :mrgreen:

I feel like I just won the lottery!

by **yono** » 18 Jan 2011 6:38

there is always an enormous satisfaction when you made it.for the first time. common dear friend, share us that joy..please show us a pic on that key..congratulations!!!

by **keysman** » 18 Jan 2011 13:12

Congrats!!! A little more info please. Like what kind of lock,how many pins/ wafers? What kind of file did you use?

by **Squirrel_Cop** » 18 Jan 2011 21:13

Thank you yono and keysman. here are the specs:

lock was a 5 pin (non mastered, non security pins) Kwikset in a mortise cylinder.
pinned as 43643
tools: vice grip pliars and a smill half round needle file.

It took well over an hour, I bought a 6" round file today to see if I can get it any faster. I ordered a #4 pippen file the other day and it should be here soon.

when I finished, I incorrectly gauged my key as 43543. when I disassembled the lock and measured the pins, I was off on #3

(large image deleted as requested by the author. mh, 2011-01-19)

by **Squirrel_Cop** » 18 Jan 2011 21:21

Ugh, that picture is huge, heres a thumbnail

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by **MacGnG1** » 18 Jan 2011 22:14

yeah, share some pics!!! i have made a key from a cylinder but not from scratch, YET. i got an abus i'm lookin to make a key for.

by **yono** » 19 Jan 2011 2:20

thanks Squirrel_cop, if i were the one who impressioned that key.. for the first time..Im gonna framed it, and hang it on my wall.

regards.

by **Jeremym0411** » 16 Mar 2011 10:46

Always remember when you are impressoning to look for dot on the pin tumbler locks and lines on wafer locks. And always use the bump and bind method. That is a ALOA locksmith test question.

by **jos weyers** » 16 Mar 2011 14:02

Jeremym0411 wrote:the bump and bind method.

I must be new to impressioning. What's bump and bind?

by **Jeremym0411** » 16 Mar 2011 14:21

It is were you rotate the key and bind the pins then bump the pins on the key to make the marks.

by **raimundo** » 16 Mar 2011 15:11

turn/bind right, bump up

turn/bind left bump up

turn/bind right bump down

turn/bind left bump down

Just an obscure method that works for some of us

but tell us your method JOS?

european champions have much better methods.

by **Jeremym0411** » 16 Mar 2011 15:36

What other methods are there??? I only use the Bump and Bind method.

by **WolfSpring** » 16 Mar 2011 15:46

jos weyers wrote:
Jeremym0411 wrote:the bump and bind method.

I must be new to impressioning. What's bump and bind?

Freakin noob... Lol...

I guess that if you have access to the sides of the lock this would work... Think I'll try it on a pain in the butt lock I've been trying to impression for a while now.

by **jos weyers** » 16 Mar 2011 16:06

raimundo wrote:tell us your method

turn/bind right, wiggle up and down a couple of times
do the same to the left
repeat to the right and left again

so it seems i am kinda using the bump method :-)

by **jos weyers** » 16 Mar 2011 16:08

raimundo wrote:european champions

i think it's time for a proper game at defcon this year
(so i can get rid of this european champion label ;-)

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