Locksmith recommendations?

[taipeitigers.livejournal.com]

I just realized that I never changed my locks after buying my place (our dear seller, I hope you are not reading this).  I searched old posts, and the posts under "key and lock" were dated in 2011 or earlier.  Are there recent recommendations for locksmiths?  For changing the lock, do I need to buy brand new ones?  Or I have to somehow take it apart and bring it to a hardware store?  Or I should ask a locksmith to come?  What is a reasonable price to change the lock for the front door?

Thanks,

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[ringrose.livejournal.com]

Many years ago when we had our house rekeyed we may have used the locksmith with a store front on Mass Ave by Porter Square. Has anyone here had recent experiences with them they'd like to share?

[totient]

That's Commonwealth Lock. They can do a lot of things other places can't. I'm not convinced they're really any better than anyone else for rekeying an SC1 cylinder which I suspect is what the OP is looking for, and their hours are kind of restrictive.

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

We also used Commonwealth Lock. Instead of rekeying we just bought two pairs of new locks for the two apartments in our house. We had the front and back door keyed to the same key, and they didn't take the same blank with the old locks, and at least one was worn out in a way where replacing rather than rekeying made sense. To buy new locks and keys was probably $50 per pair of locks. We removed the old ones and installed the new ones ourselves after we'd come home with the new ones in hand. There was a bit of carpentry but not too much. I suppose ours was many years ago, too, at this point, but I can remember doing it, so that makes it recent, right? It *might* have been within the past 4 years... maybe?

There is a newish lock shop in Medford, called something like Adamard and Dabbs, at the triangle intersection between Main St and Medford St.