I am lucky enough to have a locker at the Men’s Shed that I am a member of.  However, the lockers there are all old and second hand and all missing their keys.  So they aren’t really safe to store valuables in.  I wanted a key for my locker, so I thought I would get one cut.

Initially I just took this photo of the front of the lock to [many] locksmiths and asked them to cut a key.  I have heard that locksmiths have access to vast databases of key codes and all you should have to do is provide a code and they should be able to work out which blank and which pattern to cut on it.

However, none of them could figure it out.  So I decided to pull the whole handle from the locker and see if they could work it out from that.

The following video tells the story – including my foray into lock picking because, why not?