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Home Invasions – What Are They?

3 taken to hospital after home invasion, shootings at Kitchener residence: Waterloo police | Globalnews.ca You better believe I’ll be watching this one. Home Invasions are rare, but show an increase in potential violence Kitchener Waterloo has never seen before. Home Invasions require a level of planning to pull off, and aggression up to and […]

The History of Locks

So. We’re gonna start here, because it makes the most sense to start at the beginning. Note to the reader: This topic is huge. Massive even. I’m going to do this in parts, or no one would see me for about a month.  While we should note that the earliest example of a lock and […]

Sidewinder

Cutting house keys isn’t complicated. Really, for the most part it’s all about knowing your blanks. Once you’re comfortable with identifying what you’re trying to cut, the rest is just keeping your key cutter aligned.   This is where I normally go into my rant about automatic cutting machines, but really those machines drive so […]