In this 3-day course students will be introduced to the most trusted and age old trade in the world. This is a beginner’s course that exhibits the various forms of security and services a locksmith provides. Students will be introduced to the use of basic locksmithing tools and proper terminology. There will be an overview and hands-on training in the areas of key duplication, picking and raking lock cylinders, key blank identification, fitting and impressioning keys, lockset functions, hardware finishes, keys by code, shimming cylinders, re-pinning a cylinder, master keying cylinders and safe combination changing.

At the conclusion of this 3-day program, the students will have participated in:

- the use of the tools and equipment of the trade,

- the principles of lock construction,

- identifying common key blanks,

- disassembling, rekeying, and reassembling a variety of locksets,

- hand filing a key,

- the techniques used in picking,

- basic lock bypass techniques,

- duplicating and cutting keys by code,

- Life Safety Codes and how they apply to Locksmithing,

- the basic principles of master keying.