Locksmithing by itself is not a way to earn a living. That’s why locksmithing is usually part of a hardware store nowdays. You can make more money doing emergency calls to rich people and charging them up the wazoo, but you can’t do that in the sticks in nebraska. THey won’t put up with the cost. THat’s why there’s no locksmiths around.
If you are really curious, start by educating yourself about the classic YALE and SCHLAGE door keys(and locks) THese are extremely common and pretty simple. 5 tumblers on only one side, as I recall.
Things will get much more complex in the boonies, as those folks tend to have alot of antique stuff. You will run into locks that you wouldn’t normally see in a city.
When you start getting into cars and trucks, the keys get even more complex and varied.
I really think you are dead in the water from the get go since small town folks don’t usually even bother with keys at all. They don’t lock their houses up. They leave the keys in their cars. Lots of them even leave a key in the trunk lock of their cars all the time.
Granted, but hey, surely there's a need for people to work with ancient locks and keys.
When you start getting into cars and trucks, the keys get even more complex and varied.
That would be pretty much what I would try to do; I'm not interested in it as a profession or a full time job.
I really think you are dead in the water from the get go since small town folks don’t usually even bother with keys at all. They don’t lock their houses up. They leave the keys in their cars. Lots of them even leave a key in the trunk lock of their cars all the time.
Very true; for example, I've lived out here for years, and never locked the house. In fact, I lost the keys to this house a long time ago.
But even though living is a lot more casual out here, people do lose keys, and lock themselves out of their automobile, whatnot.