What is a Locksmith?
A locksmith is a professional whose work is to deal with the locks.
A lock is a device used to secure things/places such as, buildings, rooms, cabinets, automobiles, and much more.
Being a locksmith is one of the most tough jobs one can do.
Locksmiths can also change the key of the lock, make duplicate keys and lots of other things.
There are different types and kinds of locks available these days in the market, some provide basic security and some are high security locks.
Each and every type/kind of the lock has its own mechanism, some types of locks require a key to unlock while others require a combination and even passwords.
The job of the locksmith is getting more and more complicated as the technology of security grows.
A locksmith has to keep his knowledge and techniques up-to-date to open the latest locks.
Pick locks is a set of tools that are used by the locksmiths in order to open the locks without a key.
These tools are designed to work just like the keys and stimulate the action that a key does when inside a lock.
A locksmith can open a lock without having a key, with his/her tools.
It is not a task of few seconds to open a lock.
Simple locks can be opened within seconds, while some can take a couple of minutes, hours or even days depending on the type of the lock.
The higher the security the more time it takes to pick the lock.
A lock is the first device made in the security engineering.
A locksmith also deal with other locks such as car locks, office locks, safe locks and many more.
As any other job, one can't master the entire trade and every locksmith chooses his field of expertise.
Like we discussed earlier that locks are of different types and every lock has its own mechanism and its own technique of handling, the key/combination, etc, a locksmith decides the area of expertise or the type of lock and specializes the same.