Curious Kwikset Kwestions (I bet you'll learn something!) 

I use them on automotive locks everyday, and they’re fantastic for lost key situations. And of course, you can skip the reach tool.

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Thanks for enjoying! Glad you made it through what is a rather long video.

same

That was beautiful; thank you

I wonder if that's also the reason for the long undercut: when acting as a KW1 locate off the top, when acting as a Titan/KW11, locate off the bottom.

@@benjaminshropshire2900 yes that is exactly right. It is basically a dual shoulder stop. Top shoulder for 5 pin bottom shoulder for 6pin

Thanks! I was shocked when I realized that the use of the two in one tool for a decode against them somehow didn't seem to have as much coverage as I thought it should have on youtube.

hah... it's like surround sound. 5.1 means you have 6 speakers, right? =)

Wow, I didn't realize they had such limited market penetration over there. I know Schlage is pretty global.

@@DeviantOllam Can't say I've seen Schlage either, at least in my neck of the woods it's all yale keyway eurocylinders and dimple locks, old Elzett stuff were yale style too But well, that's the wrong side of the iron curtain so that might be the reason :D

Same here, it's Abloy all the way.

@@DeviantOllam I think schlage is not so Common too

Ouch!

Heh, see the extended version. 😉

Happy to have you check it out, not because the views matter to me, but because you can laugh at more of my bad jokes that way. :-)

You bet 😁👍

You get into locksmithing and it's like "OK.... There's two BASIC systems of nomenclature, you've got your ILCO which is hard to remember, and your Curtis which is easy to remember but sometimes makes no sense.... ALSO.... Most lock manufacturers have their own nomenclature that's completely different from BOTH.... AND the part numbers for manufacturer made keys are a completely different thing.... Then if you're asking a residential customer over the phone for any markings on the key you'll also have OTHER companies that may or may NOT, use either of those, AND, depending on what company their hardware store gets their blanks from, may be completely different than all of the above, and sometimes mixes them... Then you've got Axxess / Hillman, where it's just a number...This is assuming your customer will even SEE the marking.... if it's even there, because there are companies that don't even mark their key blanks... So google and Ilco cross reference is your friend.... ANNNDDDD to make it even more fun, since there's a lot of letters and numbers involved in both key blank nomenclature AND large masterkey systems, if you choose to go into industrial, ESPECIALLY one far away that doesn't like to bring you out unless they absolutely need to..... You'll EVENTUALLY find yourself on the phone with some EHS or Security employee, explaining that for cylinder number 341, they need to cut an ABC34 key on an F blank but if they don't have any F blanks in stock they can also use either a J or K blank, or at worst case an L blank... AND FSM be praised if they remembered to mark the keyway letter on the box of blanks after the last time they finished one....... Because otherwise you have to explain that they're looking for a box marked as 35-056-F, 35-056-J, 35-056-K, or 35-056-L.... And at that point.... you can sometimes.... not always, but sometimes.... if you listen VERY CLOSELY.... actually HEAR their brain melting... While YOUR eyes involuntarily travel from the bottle of hootch on your shelf, to the clock, and then back....

You're most welcome 😁👍

My pleasure 👍

Yeah, the Titan key blank works fine as a conventional KW1 key blank.

I've been a Locksmith for 26 years and I can say for sure that was exactly the idea behind it. It was supposed to be a premium product.

I plan to do smaller more digestible videos the rest of this week about this topic highlighting the specific tools and attacks.

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@@DeviantOllam I am on that list for quite a while i think. Crossing my fingers anyway.

the Smart Key system shouldn't ever support a 7 cut depth, to my knowledge. unless maybe the Gen 3 somehow does? i'd not heard of that.

at first the title was Kurious Kwikset Kwestions but folk pointed out that the initials were... not good 😂

I thought about that. It's almost like that, but almost not. If you align all the keys based on the underside of their shoulders, the Titan and the KW5 still don't quite line up the same way.