Recommendations for bartending and locksmithing classes?

[randomness]

(No, not simultaneous bartending and locksmithing, although I imagine that might be amusing.)

I've wanted to take both courses for quite a while but have never gotten around to it. I wonder if anyone on my flist has any recommendations.

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[frotz.livejournal.com]

The MIT guide and the Eddie the Wire books are great if the goal is to learn to pick or bypass locks, but for the field of locksmithing as a whole they're pretty limited. McGraw-Hill has a couple of books by Roper and Phillips that do a pretty good job of an overview.

The canonical mail-order course is from Foley-Belsaw, and it's still around and now costs $769. I went through someone's now-30-year-old version of this and it's a pretty good course; you'll also come out of it with a decent set of tools. Don't buy supplies from them after-the-fact, though; they're usually stupid-expensive for stuff like locksets and key blanks.