Squelchtone's workbench

[Squelchtone]

Krypos, there is already an old saying, "love laughs at locksmiths" not going to speculate on what that means, but I think its related to "locks keep honest people honest."

Anyone got any more, does shakespeare mention locksmiths? everything he wrote is not an old saying.

I found a poem.
-Squelchtone


ROBIN ROBERTSON

Wedding The Locksmith's Daughter

The slow-grained slide to embed the blade
of the key is a sheathing,
a gliding on graphite, pushing inside
to find the ribs of the lock.

Sunk home, the true key slots into its matrix;
geared, tight-fitting, they turn
together, shooting the spring-lock,
throwing the bolt. Dactyls, iambics —

the clinch of words — the hidden couplings
in the cased machine. A chime of sound
on sound: the way the sung note snibs on meaning

and holds. The lines engage and marry now,
their bells are keeping time;
the church doors close and open underground.




Note: 'locksmith's daughter': 19th-century slang for a key.

[Jaakko]

Of all the things in the picture I spotted two Abloy 3018 padlocks with Classic keyways .D

HOW do you know THAT?! man, good eye. It does in fact say 3015-3018 on those two locks.

I'm from Finland, remember? Nah, I've just seen and fiddled enough with Abloys products and the Classic keys bow caught my attention

and I'm sure you saw the Model 231 padlock and the Exec key and cylinder sitting on the bench.

231 is sitting at the middle in the top row without a key, but I first thought it could be 330. Exec key? Doesn't look like Exec, more like Disklock key. Exec has round end of the bow, while Disklock has flat end. I might see wrong, the perspective isn't the best for judgement in the picture.

[n2oah]

The cylinder is a disk lock for sure; exec cylinders were never made in mortise cylinders.

[Squelchtone]

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231 is sitting at the middle in the top row without a key, but I first thought it could be 330.

you. =) it IS a 330, I just turned around and noticed it. for some reason I thought it was a 231. oh man.. I must be tired. tired from playing with this new X-09

[spyhunter]

and of course:

"If only I had known, I would have been a locksmith." - Albert Einstein

dude that should be on a tshirt