Rare Lockwood V7 Lock Pick and Gut 

Ash mate, I have a few dozen various V7s in my collection. I'd really like to mail you a mini Lockwood pinning kit with genuine lockwood keypins as well as some of the original balanced spools. A lock such as this deserves the correct pins IMHO. Will drop you an email later on this afternoon

Yo, Iona here. The V7 generally has normal keypins and spools and tapered top pins, with balanced stacks. All of the left stacks are the same pin type and all the right are the same too, so for eg it goes spool tapered spool tapered... or tapered spool tapered and so on. This one is typical of the V7s you actually see in Australia, where they've been pinned with whatever the locksmith had - I was taking apart some old door knobs as I was packing your package up and decided to chuck one in without gutting or picking it lol.

@@westlockpicking yeah mate, most of the used ones out in the wild, 95% of them are master rekeyed with lab pins and shitloads of wafers by the locksmiths that install them. For the V7s in my collection, I rekey them with genuine tapered pins and spools. No master waffers. Not that they will be used while i own them Also subbed to your channel too mate. Good to see more aussies jumping onboard :)

Haha yeah my thoughts exactly after seeing the LAB keypins and keypin drivers rather than the original balanced spools lol A V7 lock with original key deserves the correct pins to match IMHO

May I know where those Lockwood specifications can be found? Thank you!

@@funkeyfastdrawmonkey1483 Totally agree, the spools and tapered pins make it much more challenging and fun pick. I’ve re-pinned so many that were full of master wafers and they just fall open lol.

@@OzTortoise I’ve tried looking online but couldn’t find anything. I do have an electronic pamphlet I can email to you if you like. My email is in my about section👍

@@OzTortoise i have a couple of Lockwood product range catalogues with most of the specs for most Lockwood formats such as padlocks, rim cylinders, kik, tubular deadbolts ect. One of the later issued catalogue has some really good info on various lockwood restricted systems like the Twin, Status6, Gen6T profiles.

Cheers Leon, hope you’re good friend

Thanks

Cheers!!

Thanks 🙏

Yeah!!!!

For sure!

It does! Thanks!

Understood 👍

Lol yeah

I found a Lockwood V7 pamphlet a while ago, it states every second driver is a spool and all balanced pin stacks. All the ones I’ve come across have been pinned incorrectly and I’ve had to re-pin them. Luckily I found 10 sizes of the V7 spools on eBay which made pinning easier but the standard drivers only come in 5-6 sizes as far as I can tell. I’ve also modified non V7 keys to suit and indeed the angled cuts are not necessary. I’ve always wondered if the V7 was pinned in the factory or pinned by locksmiths as I thought they were only used by certain industries and not available to the general public or over the counter for sale. I’d love to hear what flaws the system had as I’m a bit of a Lockwood nut.

@@KeylessEntry well said as always bud :) The main flaw that ive found with V7s, was the depth of cuts. Cant be a really deep 8 or 9 cut next to a 0 or 1 cut otherwise the pins can jam even when they're balanced stacks. Have you ecer noticed that with any of your V7s?

@@KeylessEntry Hi, Balanced pin stacks was a Lockwood speci. purely because of the limited room in the bible, but we found that factory placed spools were a little erratic. Every second driver would give you 3 spools, but factory pinned locks that we saw were not necessarily pinned that way. Bare in mind they were also full of master pins, as they were only used in master keyed systems. Flaws is perhaps not the right word, you couldn't replace key in knob cylinders etc. due to the "V" shaped bible. The "V" and angle cuts was designed to give extra security against unauthorised key duplication - it didn't. The keyway was fairly open regardless of profiles, and I was told it was "rushed" through to compete with BiLock. We had our own V7 "Locksmith" profile and a key machine to cut these keys, but it never proved popular or cost effective against other in line restricted key systems.

@@funkeyfastdrawmonkey1483 Cheers bro😎 I’ve got a few with radical bitting but haven’t had any issues so far. The only issues I’ve had was with thin master wafers flipping in the chambers that caused jams. Also I’ve found damage to the plug and housing from master wafers flopping around causing grooves in the housing and enlarged plug chambers.

@@brianhignett8954 Appreciate the great info. Balanced stacks make sense due to the short bible height just like 530 cylinders. The pamphlet I’ve got with the pinning specs has a 570 oval pictured and mentions that the different height drivers prevent manipulation. I’m not quite clear on how that would work, perhaps a decoding method of some kind?

Yeah 🙁 but I love it regardless

@@LockNoob I share your enthusiasm for such things :) The parcel with the mini lockwood pinning kit will be sent out in an hour or so, I will email you the tracking details once it's sent

Thanks 😊

It’s such a cool lock!

It’s awesome

I hope I can get hold of some real spool drivers

When I started using my PanaVise, the clicks got louder. The base is hollow, and it works like a sounding box (like a guitar or violin) - it amplifies the clicks.

Heavy tension helps too!

👍

Turns out, it didn’t even do that really. Good concept in theory but didn’t end up working as they wanted and needed special hardware

Yeah it went ok!!

It’s a cool lock!

I'm assuming only your older watchers will catch that reference.

Lol, I get it if that’s no too telling

No, sorry

@@LockNoob it fine

The V7 format are quite old. 1 of hundreds of restricted systems used around Australia. The V7 245 padlocks from the 80s and 90s are rare and highly sought after by collectors. V7 restricted systems have slowely been made obsolete due to newer and much higher security locks on the market such as BiLock and ABLOY protec.