Locksmith Skill Categories

Locksmith Skills Category Descriptions

ACME Locksmith offers four locksmith "courses" to cover various skills used by locksmiths. Since we teach 1:1, we offer a flexible 4-hr per day schedule to meet your needs. As soon as you complete your background checks, just pick a start date that works for you. Please note: We are not a school or vocational training center. Our focus is to simply teach you subset of locksmith skills in a functioning locksmith environment, until you're confident you know them.How you apply this knowledge is up to the individual.

I. Realtor / Handyman / Maintenance Category: Residential Locks Only

Who Needs These Skills? Realtors and maintenance staff looking for basic residential door hardware skills.

1 Week Course: 4 Hours per Day

Residential Repair Skills - No Application Fee for This Course

• Rekeying deadbolts, levers, and knobs
• Working of residential door hardware for repair
• Swapping out door hardware
• Drilling and/or replacing mailbox locks

Optional: Addition Skills That Would Require an Application Fee

• Lock bumping
• Lock picking

Course pricing.


II. Basic Locksmithing Category: Automotive Skills

Who Needs This? This category teaches you some of the basic skills used by automotive locksmiths.

7 Day Course: 4 Hours per Day

Automotive:

• Key cutting standard key
• Key cutting laser key (duplication)
• Key programming
• Remote programming
• Key origination standard key
• Ignition repair (out of vehicle)
• Ignition rekey (out of vehicle)
• Getting key cutting codes and cutting keys by codes
• Discussion of automotive equipment and software

III. Basic Locksmithing Category: Residential Skills

Who Needs This? This category teaches you some of the basic residential skills used by locksmiths.

2 Week Course: 4 Hours per Day Residential:

• Training includes a pinning kit and set of lock pics
• Rekeying deadbolts, levers, and knobs
• Lock bumping
• Lock picking
• Lock repair
• Lock bumping prevention
• Electronic lock operation
• Swapping out door hardware
• Lock drilling (cam locks and residential locks)
• Making keys by impressioning and by code

Safes:

• Change safe combination

Course pricing.


IV. Locksmith Marketing Skills:

• The only locksmith school that teaches you how to get locksmith business!
• Taught by Robert Vallelunga, Owner of ACME Locksmith and AZ's top Locksmith Marketeer
• How to book a customer
• How to design your locksmith website
• The basics of search engine optimization
• Effective locksmith advertising
• Liability, protecting your business
• Only for those with years of experience in locksmithing.

Course pricing.