Hales Lock #1

This padlock is the creation of Shane Hales, another Englishman of many talents.  He spends most of his time running his construction company in London, but he is also a master carpenter and joiner, a locksmith, and an ingenious puzzle designer.   His extremely limited series of shape based puzzles (the block, the circle, the parallelogram and the pentagon) all reside with a few collectors as his personal gift to them.   He has recently begun giving life to another passion of his, the “puzzle lock”.  Puzzle locks have been around for centuries and can be found in many cultures, often with a distinct regional style.  With a nod to Marcel Gillen’s modified puzzle locks, Shane has created his own design by modifying an existing padlock.  The “Hale’s Lock #1” is an impressive little puzzle which presents the deceivingly straightforward challenge of unlocking the padlock.  Shane has even provided you with an obvious key, unlike Peter Hajek – no need to wonder How? In this case!  Unfortunately you can’t actually use the key since it’s shackled to the lock.  So that’s not very helpful.  There are some strange things going on with this little lock, and a few discoveries to be made, and besides all that you still need to figure out how to unlock it!  Should you be so clever as to tackle this shackle, you will marvel at the brain in Shane.  Whew, all this rhyming, and all the locks in this box make me need something on the rocks!

The puzzle is in very good condition.

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World wide postage available and combined shipping.

USA £14

UK £8