Forest A Lock & Key Service

Specialties

Historically, locksmiths actually made the entire lock, working for hours hand cutting screws and doing much file-​work. Today, the rise of cheap mass production means that this is no longer true, and, though a few expert locksmiths are also engineers and capable of sophisticated repairs and renovation work, the vast majority of locks are repaired by swapping of parts or like-​for-​like replacement, or upgraded to modern mass-​production items. Until more recently, safes and strongboxes were the exception to this, and to this day large vaults are custom designed and built at great cost, as the cost of this is lower than the very limited scope for mass production would allow, and the risk of a copy being obtained and defeated as practice is removed…