Each manufacturer supplies unique key blank designs for its cylinders so that the keys for one lock will not work in a different brand, or even the same manufacturer with slightly different designs.

There’s one line that tells the smith which blank to start with ... “you can walk into a mom and pop locksmith and give them instructions to make your key,” says KeyMe founder Greg Marsh.

Two 3/32" ball bearings are inserted into each of the drilled holes in the lock plug during final assembly. As an ML key blank is inserted into the lock plug, the sets of ball bearings are moved ...

They developed an algorithm that uses measurements from known key blanks to extrapolate the bitting ... is sufficient interest he might release it. Lock bumping showed us how weak our security ...

After buying Greeley Lock & Key five years ago ... He has hundreds of styles of key blanks on the wall, six different key-cutting machines for all the different types of keys in use, plus a ...