Wow, what a beautiful lock. The craftsmanship of some of these old locks and safes puts our modern industry to shame, imo. Brilliant decode and analysis, very interesting video.

Wow, what a beautiful piece of lock history! Fantastic decoding Ash, I bet your friend is well chuffed. Take care mate and enjoy the rest of your week.

What a beautiful and interesting historic lock and what a kind thing to do for your friend. Loved this vid!

That was a waiting watch and what a very cool lock.

Such a beautiful lock, I bet you felt great when you got it open. Thanks for sharing this, sure it will benefit others! Take care ⭐️

That's from at least 1855. George Price's treatise mentions it in detail. The shackle is made out of gunmetal not iron. Gunmetal was a very common material for making locks back in those times as it was corrosion resistant. Early locks were made of iron and rusted very quickly so they used gunmetal instead for reliability and durability.

Very cool lock, and cool of you to go through all that work for a friend!

Great looking lock ash my friend. 👍👊😎🇬🇧😊

Oh boy that’s a sweetheart - great wear on it regardless of the polishing. Thanks for the beaut video! That would be a fun project to fabricate a new one in brass with some thrust bearing to make it all silky smooth! Nice one LN! 🙏🏻

What a really cool lock. Love an old brass lock! I wondered about how shinny it looks but as you said someone polished it. At least they didn't sandpaper the shackle to get the rust off. Thanks for showing it.

How awesome! Very cool old lock.

Real nice Lock, Thanks to your friend we got to see it opened and functioning. Have a great day

Awesome. This was a fun watch!

Loved it. Not only the beautufil lock, but the love and care you have shown it while decoding it. Wish I knew more about it. On the other hand locks are supposed to keep something save. Why not let it keep its secrets? Brilliant video, thanks for this.

That's a beautiful lock. Wonderful craftsmanship. I'm surprised you didn't attempt to wash off the polish residue by immersing it in a tub of paraffin. That lock would look good in an appropriate museum, but it's a great hand-me-down for that family too. What a story they now have! What a great service you've provided too. I wonder how the owner found your channel.

Actually found this in "Locks and Keys throughout the ages" by Vincent J.M.Eras, page 50. And I quote: Finally an ancient and modern keyless combination padlock are shown in Fig. 69, together with a modern Lips' cylinder padlock. The longitudinal section of this cylinder padlock shows the great similarity of this pin tumbler mechanism to the wooden peg mechanism of ancient Egyptian locks. In fact the locking principles of this modern cylinder padlock are based on those of the ancient Egyptian locks already described in an earlier chapter. With reference to keyless combination locks, letter locks have been known for many years. The following passage is from Mr. Francis J. Butter's book: "The keyless letter lock has a number of rings, mostly four or five, which can be rotated individually by hand, until a certain predetermined combination of letters ha been reached, after which the lock can be opened. Letter combinations on such locks are either fixed or may be adjusted as required. As soon as the rotating rings are brought into line with marks on the lock body, the shackle is swung on a pivot and thus released." In Beaumont and Fletcher's play "The Noble Gentleman" written in 1615, we read: "with a stranger lock that opens on A.M.E.N." This lock, designed by Mr. Carden, had a fixed letter combination, which was perfected later on my Mr. M. Requier, Administrator of Musée d'Artillerie of Paris, in such a way that letter combinations could be altered according to the user's wishes.

oh my, what a beautiful lock. nice video, really liked you going in to the details of the process

Real Nice Thanks for the great video

Beautiful lock!!!

Great video but so disappointed the code wasn't APPLE! Superbly detailed tutorial on how to deal with this type of lock.

Brilliant decode! Great video :D

Lovely lock. You did repeat yourself rather a bit in the video, making it much longer. Nice work. A pair of spreading pliers would have been a great tensioning option.

That is a beautiful lock well done noob

Scramble all the letters behind your back and show your viewers it is not a fluke. 😂😂. Just kidding. Beautiful lock and a nice decode. 👍🏻👍🏻

This lock deserves a bath in an ultrasonic cleaner and proper lubrication after that. Think thats the least damaging way to get the abrasive brass polish out of the inside.

Well Done! Question - Do you think it advisable to soak this lock in a light cleaning solution in an ultrasonic tank? With the lock open, it would allow all the sediment to be removed and drop out and then after a thorough dry time to add some light lubricant or graphite? Your thoughts? Sure would like to have a lock like this! Thank you.

Fun lock!!

Que preciosidad quiero uno

It looked the crack you showed might have been a molding error that wasn’t quite smoothed out and not a crack, I could be wrong.

I think it might be older than you guessed, as it has no distinction between I and J. A quick bit of Google suggests that the King James Bible (1692) was the first to use a separate J. I doubt if the lock is quite that old, though.

Ain't crazy if it works. 🇺🇸

Bravo

Hi hello how long have you been picking locks then ????

Best pick ....i swear itsvthe ram mofo set

Where you find that lock

Hi lock noob. Wanted to ask you do you still have your old revolver and do you still need it ? Because i want smth great so i can training LockPicking

Crazy long winded explanation, but very clever to use Kevlar fishing line. I trust your lady friend will be quite pleased.

over 23 minutes? LPL would have done this in 1 minute 12 seconds.