Best Supplier for Key Blanks

[Warbs87]

Looking to find a good supplier to start buying all my key blanks from. I have tried 2 so far. 1800keyways.com is alright but nothing ever shows up out of stock until your order ships so its a pain in the3 days it takes to ship your order and finding out only have of it is coming. The other one I currently use is keyblankdepot.com they seem pretty good, not a huge fan of the JMA keys and I have had 3 break while cutting them already.

Where do you guys get your key blanks?

[jeffmoss26]

CLK supplies is pretty good.

[Squelchtone]

how about HL Flake like every other locksmith uses...

but I guess it would help if you told us which country you are from, please fill out your location in your profile, thanks!

[Warbs87]

Sorry, I'm from Manitoba Canada

[Wizer]

I have read many complains about JMA blanks. I cut mostly JMA and have had only few issues with them.
Maybe JMA Mexico and JMA Spain are of different quality?

[Warbs87]

The SC20 blanks are the only ones I have had a problem with so far. Yeah possibly I might go back to ILCO if this is a common problem.

[alockguru]

hlflake & americankeysupply are about the only 2 I use. IDN sometimes because its local.

[alockguru]

I have read many complains about JMA blanks. I cut mostly JMA and have had only few issues with them.
Maybe JMA Mexico and JMA Spain are of different quality?

I used to use the JMA mexico blanks because they where cheaper. Recently I have went back to ILCO for some reason I just like them better. Not sure exactly what it is. The only one I know for sure is that the DA34 jma blanks I had would always break right next to the bow when trying to impression. (not in the normal spot of you where to put to much pressure back and forth) It was pretty weird I'm generally light handed when imressioning. Maybe just a bad batch, I dunno.

[Warbs87]

Here is where mine are breaking.

[Warbs87]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d3rb8mgtycepezw/2014-03-09%2013.45.23.jpg Turns out im a rookie and cant get my dropbox link to work.

[alockguru]

craziness!

[Warbs87]

I just received my order of Ilco keys. They seem like a way better quality than JMA. I think its worth paying a bit more per key to be able to sell good quality keys that will stand up over time. I'm giving up on JMA other than their aluminum keys.

[jeffmoss26]

Ilco and Jet are my preferred manufacturers unless I can get OEM blanks which is not always possible.