If you yield a account of a car or abode key, could you use that account to get a archetype made? Yes—quite trivially, actually. I accept a binder on my laptop that is abounding with photos humans accept taken of their keys and put assimilate the internet. Every few weeks, I yield some abandoned time and accessory one of those keys to an abode (lot of Googling, mostly) and again I break the cuts in the key.
Then, I do annihilation else—because I'm a appealing nice dude who is just absorbed by this array of thing. That said, however, the specific abstracts for any accepted cast of lock can be begin online, and, with a little experience, you can hand-file keys in alone a few minutes. Just seek for "Depth & Space" charts. Those will acquaint you how far afar to amplitude your cuts and the accessible base you ability acquisition cut into that blazon of key. Note that, while the amplitude and abyss will break constant beyond a accustomed brand, it's up to you to amount out the specific base for your key.
Because you are alive from a photograph, you may aswell charge to do a little plan to calibration and skew the advertence angel a bit. However, you can amount out the ambit of added locations of the key—like the absolute length, height, bow of the key, etc.—so, even if the aboriginal angel was taken from an odd angle, you can use assorted accepted credibility on the key to adapt your measurements. Compare the base of the cuts to the abyss & amplitude charts—and, boom, you accept what we alarm the "bitting" of the lock.
Then, just yield a bare key (you can buy the a lot of accepted blanks at your bounded accouterments store) and mark out the agreement with a Sharpie. File down at anniversary Sharpie mark until you've accomplished the appropriate measurements, and you'll accept a alive key for that lock.
You should anticipate of your keys like you anticipate of your passwords: don't appearance them off to the world!
A aberration on this column was originally acquaint on Quora. Lead angel by Flickr user Chris Cook/Creative Commons.
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