Vintage lock picking

[LockNewbie21]

Okay so i love lockpicking.. also love the midde and dark ages, so my new hobby is collecting vintage locks, anyone else have this hobby to? i have seen some neat locks on ebay i am going to purchase, i put this in the forum becuase i am going to try and pick them. Yea so some old middle age movies inspired it, but there neat little buggers, i also read on the history of these locks and security features they added, my favorite was the mechanism that if you picked it and messed up it would cut off your finger. I dont know if this is true, but man could you imagine a lockies job with a lockout call with a lock that has this one it? Anyway just thought i would post my new hobby to see if anybody else does it to. I choose the title becuase i would like to post some pictures of locks i am going to buy and some i will aquire.

Andy

[Shrub]

Be very careful with the locks on ebay almost al of them are infact oriental copies and por at that.

[LockNewbie21]

Yea some seemed a little how do i say shiney? to be antuige, good tip shrub i am only in it for the real deal, the ones a blacksmith might have used to lock up his place... hey never know if they'll ever invent a time machine we can all go back any show them some real locks

[grim]

hey never know if they'll ever invent a time machine we can all go back any show them some real locks

you make it sound like this hasn't happened.