I am a designer and woodworker. I am attempting to build a special type of lock and key. All of my locks and keys up to now have been made with wood and neodymium magnets (strong earth magnets). I want to build a multi-piece key that fits into a type of tumbler lock. I’m thinking that the key can have something like 8 pieces that fit together with pins sticking out of each piece. You can rotate each piece to one of four different so the pin is facing up, down, left, or right. When you have each pin lined up in the right position, the key can properly fit into the key hole, and then turned to open the lock.
Or maybe the key has 8 different pieces on a keyrod, where they can all get pulled off and put back in a different order. Each time you reorder the pieces onto the keyrod, the key still fits into the hole, but maybe won’t be able to turn until the right order.
This lock is for a cherry and walnut full-size blanket chest. I’m open for ideas and suggestions.
