Best tools for beginner Auto Locksmith?

[Jaym]

I have a basic locksmith skills nothing too advanced but I would like to start to work on a small business, maybe part time in my area as an auto locksmith, what are the best tools I can get to get started? I am kinda on a budget, I was thinking a V8/X6 Chinese cutting machine plus a T300 key programmer and some access tools and spare keys for each vehicle brands, I am in Southern California so the most common cars around here are Japanese, American, Korean and German brands, please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions that would be helpful, I would appreciate it. Thanks

Jay.

[Squelchtone]

Please note this is primarily a "hobbyist lock picking for fun" forum. You posted in Ask Beginner Hobby Lockpicking Questions. Unless you're asking how to pick a Master padlock in this section, please post locksmith business related questions in the Locksmith Business Info sub forum made just for our locksmith members, and in that area the sub forum Running a Business or Locksmith Supplies.

*Actual instruction or talk of automotive door opening or ignition lock work is restricted to our Advanced Topics area so that we arent publicly teaching bad guys everything professional locksmiths know.

Moving this from Ask Beginner Hobby Lockpicking Questions to Locksmith Business Info - Locksmith Supplies.

Have a good one,
Squelchtone

[Tyler J. Thomas]

I have a basic locksmith skills nothing too advanced but I would like to start to work on a small business, maybe part time in my area as an auto locksmith, what are the best tools I can get to get started? I am kinda on a budget, I was thinking a V8/X6 Chinese cutting machine plus a T300 key programmer and some access tools and spare keys for each vehicle brands, I am in Southern California so the most common cars around here are Japanese, American, Korean and German brands, please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions that would be helpful, I would appreciate it. Thanks

Jay.

Be careful buying programmers and key machines from China via Alibaba and the like. I've heard nothing but bad. Product and tech support are tenets of this industry; you get neither from companies using stock photos in their business profiles.