Cutaway locks: has anyone attempted to make one?

[oldlock]

Here's a picture of the ABUS cut a way, I make no apology for the size of the picture, I have left it large to try and show the quality of the machining.



Paul

[mbell]

Awesome cutaway.

Was that lock home made or factory built?

[oldlock]

Abus factory. I have a factory cut a way bilock new gen somewhere too ..

[Chronos]

All I can say is: wow. That is one dead sexy cutaway. I don't think mine will be anywhere near that quality but it gives me a good indication of what one could look like.

[MrB]

Perhaps the best way to make a cutaway lock is to use a milling machine, if you can get access to one. See Matt Blaze's examples for an illustration of how nice they can be.

Where can I find that? I searched for "Matt Blaze" and it didn't yield any results

See here: http://www.crypto.com/papers/notes/picking/

[skold]

That be the same one as i saw, now oldlock... you wouldn't mind postin a pic of that bilock cutaway in the restricted forums??

[Blackjack]

If you are looking for a cutaway cylinder for practice picking check out the following website.
www.multipick-service.com
The site is German and if you head to the area about cylinders and picks you will see training cylinders. There are two versions available one with no antipick and one with two antipick mushroom pins. The owner is vwey helpful, speaks excellent English and ships to just about anywhere. I would give you the exact link to the page but the site appears to down at the moment.

[PickPick]

Why should a picture of a cutaway go to the advanced forum? After all this very forum has a sticky with links to diagrams of a lot of high security locks.

[skold]

I dont know, it was 6 in the morning...without any iced coffee i was probably brain dead

[skold]

Well i have almost finished my abus cutway.





just need to do the 6th cut and then the padlock

[oldlock]

Neatly done, are you cutting by hand or machine ?

Paul

[skold]

hacksaw

[micheal2]

I did a rough cut-a-way of a Master combination lock to see how it worked. I used a grinder and ground around the rear edges of the lock. The result is not pretty however, I did learn how the lock mechanism worked. This helped me to learn how to open the lock without knowing the combination.