this is something I made at work to keep a spare key for safety. It has a numbered tag so that my wife knows that I'm unable to use it without her knowing.
Looks great. I did a simpler piece for a regular key by taking a piece of copper pipe about 3 inches long and partially flattened it and then closing one end totally and then drilling a hole in the other end to put another lock or numbered tag in to keep the key end.
That is what we used to do. Problem was that my wife never checked it. Twice my emergency key has come in handy. Never know when you will find yourself in excruciating pain waiting for EMS to take you to the hospital where they cut off your jeans to insert something into your penis to get at the kidney stone that has lodged itself somewhere and caused a massive infection that collapsed a lung. (I wanted to see how long I could make a sentance.) It is often the things we do not plan for that bite us in the ass. I think not having an emergency key is either pure fiction or unsafe play. I have been into fetish play for 47 years and know the importance of playing safe and sane. It took surgery to learn that lesson because I saw the porn and read the "true life" posts online. I really do not care about all the people who live their sex lives online, other than sadness that they have to do that, but it can cause newcomers to do unsafe things, like it once did for me. Good for you. My emergency key is now wrapped in several layers of paper, plastic and tape and in full view in the kitchen. If I open it now, my wife will notice but as long as your wife checks, the numbered plastic locks are a safe and easy way to do it. It is good to write the number down on the pad or else over time your wife will forget what the number is. That was our problem.
It is for emergencies only. I keep it in my car. My keyholder/wife has a picture of the number tag. To make sure I haven't tampered with it, She will do random inspections of the key. She keep the other key locked at home which I do not have access to .
@Vinny, same question to you. You said the key was in full view in the kitchen. What about when you leave home? Last week I gave M my spare key which I carried in my wallet. Not having a key feels different than having a key. She never checked that my wallet key had not been tampered with. Too big a window of tampering. A couple months I polled people as to when they had used their emergency key and no one reported having to use it. Several reported they did not have access. So I got to thinking: what is the window where I would need an emergency key We both work from home so 65% of the time I can get her to unlock me. If I'm home and she is out I can call and get the location of a hidden key. Not all the time but a lot of the time. Let's say another 20%. That leaves when I'm home and can't reach M or I'm out on my own. Maybe 15% of the time. The emergency would have to come on faster than I'm able to get to a key. That leaves a small number of events but not insignificant events. I'm going to try encapsulating one of our spare keys (there are two) in a plastic dome and put it on M's desk. If this works out it will be decorative, always in her sight to check, and accessed in a few minutes with a hand saw. But that leaves me traveling without a key. Any protocol where I ask for the spare key when needed will fail at times. Smaller window of risk but not gone. Carrying the key in my wallet is back to too much opportunity. A weekly ritual of checking would suffice but she would have to remember. I don't want to add to her workload. Travel with out the spare and accept some risk? Ask for the spare when I'm gone for longer time and accept some risk? Always carry a spare and improve tamper checking protocol? P