Locksmithing in a Nutshell

Locksmithing is a trade profession of designing and producing protective devises and mechanisms used to secure houses, buildings, storage, cabinets, or other objects. The art of Locksmithing is taught in higher education institutions, normally in the engineering department. Locksmiths may be commercial (working out of a storefront), mobile (work from the vehicles) and institutional (installing locks in schools, hospital, government offices and more).

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A Locksmith may specialize in one aspect of the skill, such as an automotive lock specialist, a master key system specialist, a safe technician or intercom installation technician. Many also act as security consultants, but not all security consultants have the skills and knowledge of a locksmith.

Modern Locksmith repair and installs locks, re-key locks, reproduce keys, perform installation of security strategies, work for security institutions designing layers of security to prevent theft, work in forensic or as security consultants.