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Working Wooden Locks

Les ELm

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I made a few of these from a couple of Ted Detweiller's books on making working wooden locks.

Les
 

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Dalboy

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They are all great locks I like the combination locks and would like to see the workings but I should imagine that is too late now
 
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these look great
i am guessing a lot of work involved
feel free to do a WIP with pics :ave_it:

Steve
 
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Dalboy said:
They are all great locks I like the combination locks and would like to see the workings but I should imagine that is too late now
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The great book of wooden locks complete plans for 9 working wooden locks Author Detweiller Linden Publishing.

This covers how to in detail buy one book get 9 full answers.

Peter.:thumbs:
 
paulm

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One lock would be impressive Les but to have made all those is fantastic. They're all lovely. :thumbs:

I guess all you would need to pick one of those locks is a match :funny:
 
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