Locksmith Training Courses
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 Phoenix's 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.
