Since I've been modding tools and especially modding micro MTs like the Squirt, I've always wanted to make a keytool. You know...the ones where you take your keys, hack them up and put them in a row so that they would stay together and be more compact.
Since I am not one to follow and usually one to make crazy tools (not to mention mistakes), I wanted to make my own key tool.
I call it the Glitch. Why?
Lets go back a few years...in the mid-90's, a small animation firm in Vancouver, BC Canada developed and piloted a show, Reboot. This show was one of the first successful, fully CG television shows at the time. The story tool place inside a PC Computer, more specifically, the software. Programs were people and characters and the information superhighway was literally a highway. Cheesy, but the writing was great and the plot lines were full of nerdy references. The general public known as the Binomes for Binomial, like 1 and 0, were shaped like 1's and 0's. More complex programs know as Spirites had functions like humans. One Spirit, named Bob, was a Guardian, a virtual task police force that swore to "mend and defend" systems from viruses and invaders from the net. (guy in blue is Bob)
Bob, like all Guardians, had his own wrist adorned 'Keytool'. When commanded, the keytool could change in various tools and useful objects (such as hammers, shields, scanner etc), it could even shoot lasers. Yes. it sounds like the ultimate multitool.
Bob's keytool was named Glitch.
It is only fitting that my keytool is named Glitch. It won't change shape or turn into a pair laser sword, but it does open doors and start cars....what? start cars?!
The problem that really stopped me from making my keytool for the longest time was trying to figure out how I could put in a car key. Most car keys are way tool long for the outside slots. Most house keys barely fit, how the heck would I put the car in it's place. Then it dawned on me....put it on the INSIDE! Like a Balisong!!!
Thus...the start of the Glitch project began!
Here are some prelim build pics. The main thing is the car key, the other keys and stuff can wait.
Step 1, get a key blank that was wide enough to cut the closed plier head pattern onto
Step 2, cut shape and grind the profile in.
Step 3, cut the back spring HOOK portion back a bit so the tip of the key would sit in it's place when it was closed up.
(sitting like this)
Step 4, install the rest of the tools and button her up!
Step 5, open it up a few dozen times to get the brass rubbing point to be smooth.
Step 6, enjoy a photo of the balisong'd car key (it's back sprung so it's just the shape, not function like one)
Now..I went and opened the door to my car and it worked great, even started it too! Seems to me that my favourite nerd show from the 90's has a new life in my pocket.
Welcome home Glitch.
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Future plans:
-Install my LED light on it
-Shape the other keys
-make a few more tool layers
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