Good central site for cutaways and/or descriptions?

[absynthe]

From some of the stickies it seems that there isn't really a good central site that has lists and pictures of interesting locks. Has anyone ever thought of making a site? Basically what I am thinking is a site that has a good index of maybe 100 locks from around the world.

I would think there would be two things needed:

1) Whoever started it or whatever group started it would need a pretty decent collection of locks (or collection of photos that they have rights to)

2) You would have to get permissions to use pictures that others have taken.

I think it might be tricky to get permission for lot of the nice cutaway pics because if the site ever became strong... their site would probably lose some hits.

Anyway.. I was thinking that since there are lots of people on here that have pictures of their locks... and I am sure contacts with locksport groups that gets locks for competition... there must be someway to get a good catalog of the more common locks.

So far my source for a good overview of locks in the world have been

1) Posts on this site
2) http://www.toool.nl/cutaway1.pdf (and future posts I hope)
3) http://www.crypto.com/photos/locks.html
4) Random searches finding this sort of thing (http://locksandsecurity.blogspot.com/20 ... ccess.html)

Since the community here seems pretty sharing... is there any interest in organizing people to take their old pictures or taking new ones and getting a pretty decent catalog going? It could be a sticky or perhaps even a sub-site that let you quickly jump to peoples pictures and see what a particular lock looks like or find out about new ones.

Anyway.. it seems like a number of people here are interested in finding cutaway pics and often have to search all over. Has this been discussed before or attempted? I would think that if all of the leg work and time got the page going... that many people would be happy about it (if it successfully highlighted and showed a very nice share of locks).

[freakparade3]

One of our regular users had a blog with some amazing pictures and breakdowns of locks. Unfortunately, I cannot remember the users name. He has a link to the blog in his signature. Hopefully he will read your post.

[Jaakko]

What is wrong with Lockenpedia except that it runs little slow?

And the blog in question is The_Masters (something like that).

[absynthe]

I had never heard of lockenpedia but this seems like the perfect place. The only thing is that it isn't there yet. For example, I wanted to see what they had for the EVVA 3KS and there is about a paragraph on it. It mentions a picture but I don't see the corresponding picture.

http://ibmgeek.shacknet.nu/lockenpedia/ ... p/EVVA_3KS

And on the page for EVVA there are 4 pics of the MCS but no cutaways. I also looked up KABA and there is one lock there that I have not heard of. They have at least 4 solid lines of locks (even though they basically look the same, just more pins or angles of pins)

This would be a great place but I am not sure if enough people know about it. On the sticky about links for cutaways.. it is not listed. Of course.. I have basically no interesting locks in my collection so I have no room to speak.

It just seems like there are great pictures out there and lots of people in the community who have the locks.. but not really a central place where you can really browse lots of locks.

[n2oah]

I had never heard of lockenpedia but this seems like the perfect place. The only thing is that it isn't there yet. For example, I wanted to see what they had for the EVVA 3KS and there is about a paragraph on it. It mentions a picture but I don't see the corresponding picture.

http://ibmgeek.shacknet.nu/lockenpedia/ ... p/EVVA_3KS

And on the page for EVVA there are 4 pics of the MCS but no cutaways.

Hey, I remember writing that description. In fact, the same one is on my site, but it has pictures with it.
Here's the linkage:
http://agentddr999.googlepages.com/

If you really want to help out, you have my permission to take the photos and descriptions from my site and post them with the corresponding articles on lockenpedia--I've been meaning to do that for a while now.

[n2oah]

Also, sorry for the shitty photos, I've been meaning to take new ones forever. You might want to check out protections-vol for some good locks, too.