April 26

“The Visual Topography of a Generation Gap ( I, II, III)” by Daniel Bejar“Each set of keys began with an original key. A copy was made from each original key, then a copy was made from that copy. This process was repeated until the original keys information was destroyed…” as someone who actually cut keys and started doing so at age 13 and has brass filings embedding in my sclera because of it (the key depicted is a non-chromed 5-pin kwikset kw1 keyway blank cut at what looks to be depths 6:5:2:3:4), this little demonstration is full of shit and offensive to locksmiths and keymakers. the effect was achieved by offsetting the register bar outside of true and the generational drifting (even taking into account a locksmith’s understanding of pin erosion/deformation, for that matter) variance is easily taken into account and rectified by any tradesman (walmart leadbrains notwithstanding). let alone the obviously manipulated cutter-wheel depths. high-carbon steel cutter-wheels will not reduce like that unless you’re processing about 1,000 steel mailbox keys (which use a totally different machine to begin with) between the butterbrass of even thicker weiser key blanks. hell, even medico (alloy) keys don’t even require cutter-wheel changes until you’re well into the thousands of dupes. all that said, there are those of us who have been priivy to the real-world aspects of physicality and wear and tear and in our each project we summon our judgements of tolerance and begin to see in thousandths of an inch and can, by practice alone, pull the correct wafer without a measurement and set it into your masterlocking. the spirit of “freemasons” exists in all aspects of even unto your IT departments. hell, even unto your carpeters (i bet you didn’t know that every carpet laid has a penny placed somewhere underneath (in a corner, usually) to indicate the year the carpet was set. and it’s either face-up if the client was respectful, or face-down if they were dicks and perhaps their new berber should be laid to ensure unravelling at the nap). or maybe you didn’t know that roofers will sink and pull a few shinglenails right next to a series of rafters so they rot out because you functioned like a nancy crybaby when they said they couldn’t work because of impending rain. or maybe your electrician didn’t connect the ground on your fridge receptacle so that when you have your hand on the stainless steel of your sink and reach to open the fridge you get the slight 60-cycle electrocution from phase differentials up the neutral. these things are not up to you and will be and are employed at the discretion of those that work in trades. see, it’s like being in a restaurant. complain about a dish and demand it be remade to your spastic liking: the cooks include snot as an ingredient. and sadly for yr sorry self, there ain’t shit you can do to rectify or know about the situation. and you’ll smugly enjoy your snot-flavored victory, idiot. shit, i digressed. back to analog vs. digital copies. maybe i stuck a virus in what you’re uploading via my open slsk folders.
“The Visual Topography of a Generation Gap ( I, II, III)” by Daniel Bejar
“Each set of keys began with an original key. A copy was made from each original key, then a copy was made from that copy. This process was repeated until the original keys information was destroyed…”

as someone who actually cut keys and started doing so at age 13 and has brass filings embedding in my sclera because of it (the key depicted is a non-chromed 5-pin kwikset kw1 keyway blank cut at what looks to be depths 6:5:2:3:4), this little demonstration is full of shit and offensive to locksmiths and keymakers. the effect was achieved by offsetting the register bar outside of true and the generational drifting (even taking into account a locksmith’s understanding of pin erosion/deformation, for that matter) variance is easily taken into account and rectified by any tradesman (walmart leadbrains notwithstanding). let alone the obviously manipulated cutter-wheel depths. high-carbon steel cutter-wheels will not reduce like that unless you’re processing about 1,000 steel mailbox keys (which use a totally different machine to begin with) between the butterbrass of even thicker weiser key blanks. hell, even medico (alloy) keys don’t even require cutter-wheel changes until you’re well into the thousands of dupes.

all that said, there are those of us who have been priivy to the real-world aspects of physicality and wear and tear and in our each project we summon our judgements of tolerance and begin to see in thousandths of an inch and can, by practice alone, pull the correct wafer without a measurement and set it into your masterlocking.

the spirit of “freemasons” exists in all aspects of even unto your IT departments. hell, even unto your carpeters (i bet you didn’t know that every carpet laid has a penny placed somewhere underneath (in a corner, usually) to indicate the year the carpet was set. and it’s either face-up if the client was respectful, or face-down if they were dicks and perhaps their new berber should be laid to ensure unravelling at the nap). or maybe you didn’t know that roofers will sink and pull a few shinglenails right next to a series of rafters so they rot out because you functioned like a nancy crybaby when they said they couldn’t work because of impending rain. or maybe your electrician didn’t connect the ground on your fridge receptacle so that when you have your hand on the stainless steel of your sink and reach to open the fridge you get the slight 60-cycle electrocution from phase differentials up the neutral. these things are not up to you and will be and are employed at the discretion of those that work in trades.

see, it’s like being in a restaurant. complain about a dish and demand it be remade to your spastic liking: the cooks include snot as an ingredient. and sadly for yr sorry self, there ain’t shit you can do to rectify or know about the situation. and you’ll smugly enjoy your snot-flavored victory, idiot.

shit, i digressed. back to analog vs. digital copies. maybe i stuck a virus in what you’re uploading via my open slsk folders.

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    “The Visual Topography of a Generation Gap ( I, II, III)” by Daniel Bejar “Each set of keys began with an original key....
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    as someone who actually cut keys and started doing so at age 13 and has brass filings embedding in my sclera...
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    is sad and perfect.
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    I don’t think this the same...New Pornos and Destroyer, right?
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