Yesterday after a visit to the dentist (or as I call him, the toothsmith) I finished cutting the keyhole. I don't have a pic of it but will upload one later this week. The keyhole looks like an upside down "L". The keyhole serves a double purpose. In modern locks, the keyhole is the same shape as the key. In the case of this lock, the keyhole allows for the insertion of the key as well but once the key is inserted is actually moved around, not just rotated in place. The key is actually moved sideways to complete the unlocking process. Hopefully this will be obvious once I get to that point and can upload some pics.
Next, I had to size the key to fit the keyhole. The problem is not with the end of the key where I had to do some much filing but with the shaft of the key. I forged it square knowing that I would have to later resize and reshape it to round but I wanted to have excess material. The key originially looked like what is shown below...
While I was over at the friend's place, I started filing the shaft down into a round shape and doing some general cleanup on the key. Which was apparently fairly erotic to watch but I will not go into that here. I made good progress on the key and when I'm done with this cleanup, I will put another coat of oil to give it the nice black color again.
Also, just had an article sent to me which shows a technique for cleating nails. Cleating nails is the process of bending a nail on the backside of a material to help the nail hold. The article http://www.geocities.com/svenskildbiter/Craft/howtocleatnails.html should prove useful.
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