Attributions & Licensing

Spahr's Locksmith Encyclopedia is published by Joshua Spahr at A Better Locksmith. Most articles are original educational writing. Selected articles incorporate material adapted from Lockwiki, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Lockwiki (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Lockwiki content is available under CC BY-SA 3.0 as described on the Lockwiki copyrights page. Where we have used Lockwiki text, we have rewritten, reorganized, and supplemented it for this encyclopedia. Those adapted portions remain available under the same license.

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Articles Adapted from Lockwiki

The following encyclopedia articles include material derived from Lockwiki. Each entry lists our page and the corresponding source article.

Encyclopedia article Lockwiki source
Wafer Locks Wafer
Dimple Locks Dimple Lock
Key Bumping Key bumping
Impressioning Impressioning
Interchangeable Cores Interchangeable core
Sidebar Locks Sidebar
Latches Latch
Decoding Decoding
High Security Locks High security lock
Loiding Loiding
Lockpicking Lockpicking
Bypass Bypass
Pick Guns Pick gun
Locksport Locksport
Key Control Key control
Safecracking Safecracking
Comb Picks Comb pick
Raking Raking
Magnetic Pin Locks Magnetic lock
Forensic Locksmithing Forensics
Security Pins Security pin
Construction Keying Construction keying

Original Encyclopedia Content

All other articles, category pages, glossary entries, and editorial framing on this site are original work by Joshua Spahr and are © Spahr's Locksmith Encyclopedia unless otherwise noted. You may link to these pages freely; republication of original text requires permission.

Trademarks & Third-Party Names

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