Key Copying and Key Cutting - 4 min

Key cutting and duplicating, matching keys and making keys

Here we are at one of our Lock Surgeon locations, we have a number of locations that cut keys. We're going to do a quick review and let you see what type of keys we have available, in general terms we have a very wide variety of keys.

This is our board of keys just for desks, file cabinets, cam-locks, trailer locks, padlocks, mailbox locks and a number of boat locks. Then we move over to another rack of keys that is made for motorcycles, boats, padlocks and that type of thing. We'll spin around a little bit and give you a shot of our main key board that has a huge selection of keys for commercial locks, residential locks, panic bars, master key systems and security keys. We even have the skeleton keys for old display and sewing machine boxes and that type of thing, not as common today but we do have them. Of course we have charts that allow us to reference lots of types of keys and have books and manuals that let us do that as well.

Then we get into chip keys, remote head keys and the Fobic keys, we have a number of those. We don't carry every item but we do carry a large variety of them, what we don't have, of course, we can order in quickly. We always try to carry everything that is popular so we can meet your needs quickly. Automatic key machine, this unit is used to cut our Mul-T-Lock keys, generally we put the key in and everything is done automatically by the machine, very technical, and of course makes a security key that can't be copied anywhere else.

We have our pin kits, and computers that we can reference serial numbers for keys or vin numbers for vehicles and get the information to cut a key if you've lost a key or just to make an extra key. But we're general talking about copying keys at the moment so then we have the ITL machine that can have a code programmed in and cut the key and build master key systems and cut all those keys, it is our typical key cutter here that is for copying keys.

We build our systems so that it covers as many items as possible. We've got bulk keys here for your general common every day use of products. As you can see we've literally got hundreds of thousands of keys. This key machine is rather strong and capable and is setup so that it can cut up to 4 generations of keys and still be accurate to the original. Here we have one of our shop technicians just demonstrating how we cut a key. It's a basic operation but if not done correctly you can have a poor cut or a cut that is cut too low or too high.

The machines are calibrated regularly, the guides have to be setup properly and we have to run these through the machine properly. We're going to go from shoulder to tip, then from tip to shoulder, then back again, often cutting up to 3 times. Then we take the key and brush it on a wire wheel to take off any burrs that will interfere with that key's operation. That might seem like an easy and standard thing but it's something you will not find happening at other facilities, it's our process to make sure that happens each and every time. Thanks for joining us on this video and I hope you've learned a little bit about what we can do for you in regards to keys.