Inventing (and building) the Van Rocker!
It's a lock pick unlocker for the Vanlock company lock.
This is the lock:
7 pin pushers:
I put them on the lathe to reduce the diameter of one end of the pin pushers:
This is a Vanlock key. It has 7 pins that seem to be one of 5 different lengths:
I disassembled the key for curiosities sake, and used the round part as a template:
Drilling the block of the VanLock Rocker:
This pic shows the middle, wider portion of the pusher pins. That keeps it from falling out of either the top or bottom of the block.
If you lock at the last hole it is smaller---it hasn't been drilled
yet with a larger bit---but not all the way through. The smaller hole left on the other side of the block will stop the wider middle part of the pusher pins from falling out:
Made a little cap piece to hold the pins in:
