DetroitT wrote:I have to be honest, I am coming to this site to ask for help. My family has a custom 1950's bookcase/guncase built into the den. We've lost the key, but need to get the guns out. Can anyone help identify this lock and possibly some direction on how to pick it?
http://tinypic.com/r/2lsi9e8/6
Please call a locksmith from a reputable local locksmith shop (not the first one you find in the phone book under AAAAAAAAAA locksmiths, find an actual shop that has a store you can walk into) and have them come pick it or drill it open.
There's just no way to prove who people are on the internet, and if we help you, we may also be helping some bored teenager who finds our advice here down the road and uses the info we tell you in order to get into his dad's gun cabinet and cause trouble.
We try to be very responsible with the information we hand out when the public comes here asking for help on opening a certain lock, and we shy away from answering questions that relate to picking vending machines, safes, gun cabinets, car ignitions, etc.
Hope you appreciate our position, a local locksmith should have no issue opening that for you.
Squelchtone
PS. your lock is also a lever lock, it is not something we can easily tell someone how to pick by bending a paperclip and rotating it 90 degrees, its just not that easy, you'd have to get special tools and learn how locks work. I realize people turn to the internet for quick answers, but lock picking often does not involve quick answers.
