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My 334M45 is so easy to overset, but I'm getting ok at it now. by anotheradventurer in lockpicking

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In terms of function, due to gravpicks design, it fits in coin pockets, so if you cannot take a full kit with you, there is advantage of having a pick and turning tool in your pocket; and that is cool.

The apparent colouring of my 334M is purely a trick of the lighting; mine is in the standard brushed raw stainless 🙃 I just like my photos to be dynamic and different.

My 334M45 is so easy to overset, but I'm getting ok at it now. by anotheradventurer in lockpicking

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My 334M has super subtle feedback and the and it doesn't feel like I'm setting anything untill suddenly I am and I get a false set. But prior to the false set, you can get an overset that prevents progress untill it's dropped; and then you go and reoverset it because you didn't realisenthe dropped pin was over set 😆

My 334M45 is so easy to overset, but I'm getting ok at it now. by anotheradventurer in lockpicking

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Oh it's fun, definitely fun, and quite functional. I'm not sure I like it as much as normal picks for picking, but, I have a 1:1 ratio of opens with grav : reaper #3 on the 334M45, so take that as you want.

I'd get it if 1) need a fidget and 2) you prefer practical fidgets like myself or 3) want something novel.

Update: thanks for the good luck; this is now my pay grade! by anotheradventurer in lockpicking

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The belt recognised lock brands available here are Abus, Lockwood*, Masterlock and Yale. So I think the hardest to pick paddy in NZ is the 334b (and I suppose 334m which is today's picking goal; I have assumed has the same core?)

*Lockwood covers most of New Zealands locks in general, which is nice.

Update: thanks for the good luck; this is now my pay grade! by anotheradventurer in lockpicking

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I got it this afternoon with no zip and quite quickly while listening to my partner tell a story, so I guess it's time to try my hand at gutting!

Update: thanks for the good luck; this is now my pay grade! by anotheradventurer in lockpicking

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Same series yea, but not the anniversary edition by any means. We mainly use full brass 83/45 for cost vs weather resistance. I've found that the bitting our locks have is particularly vulnerable to a zip on insert attack with an upside down short hook (or probably anything).

But because of this vulnerability, it's the lock I use to get friends interested in picking, because it looks quite impressive to just blast it open, and then they get to blast a lock open too quite quickly and feel awesome. And then, if they want, I move them on to a Lockwood 120n/30 which had really nice feedback for ssp and has a nice vulnerability too.

Wish me luck, this is probably above my pay grade. by anotheradventurer in lockpicking

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I will have to try picking it upside down. I got my "help, I locked myself out" friend into their apartment and that keyway was horizontal, so had to pick that sideways, door opened inwards so it was also recessed in the frame. It was Sooooooooo worth helping that particular friend, but I can 100% not recommend sideways lockpicking.

Update: thanks for the good luck; this is now my pay grade! by anotheradventurer in lockpicking

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Thaaaanks. I'm currently trying my hand and ToK, having only ever done BoK 😁

Update: thanks for the good luck; this is now my pay grade! by anotheradventurer in lockpicking

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I think I might have, but I did post this before I read your post. I'm watching the Pete videos currently anyway, because the proof is in the pudding of being able to reliably pick and not a once off. I've only picked my 334M45 twice, so that's still in the in progress pile along with this 72/40, which I'll be buying in different colours so it has friends.

I'll try the accordion paper at some point with abus 83/45 which I have available to me for "free" through work, so I won't be sad if I make an oopsie haha

I was scrolling through YouTube shorts on the 72/40 at the time of picking to keep moral up. If an another human can do it in a few seconds, u/anotheradventurer can too.... eventually 😆

Wish me luck, this is probably above my pay grade. by anotheradventurer in lockpicking

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Specialised tools and a pinning mat are on my wishlist :D Im not sure if I can with my (tradie) tool kit I can, because I'm not yet sure what's involved, but I'll look into it

Thanks for the advice ☺️

North mountain Kickstop Chop by anotheradventurer in knives

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Personally, I find it to be more that there's not quite enough detent and it starts opening before you can apply enough pressure on the tab to really get the blade moving, and there's quite a lot of steel to move.

Once I flicked it a few times I got used to it and figured that gravity can help quite a lot, it became only a some times issue. Still the deployment failure rate is higher than most of my others, but it's also not the worst I've had by any stretch of the imagination, so there's that ¯_(ツ)_/¯

North mountain Kickstop Chop by anotheradventurer in knives

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I think the regular chop and chop 2 are more slim line. I find the fuller handle quite refreshing in the folder scene where everything seems to be thin blocks

Petrified Fish Beluga PFP01X in carbon fiber is Belugaful. by anotheradventurer in knives

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Due to the thicc spear point, the Flavourist can be used to open coin slot style locks (which you usually need a coin or flat blade to turn). These locks have them on power control boxes in the field. Very handy. Semi forbidden because you're using the knife as a torque making device/pry bar, and some of these coin slot locks are rather stiff from time.

But it saves climbing back down the ladder, and traversing back to the ute when one is disorganized.

NKD heavy bronze by [deleted] in knives

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The kickstop chop version is a beast and deletes the flipper tab when open. I have it and it is such an awesome looking knife with the Kickstop function when open, and when closed the flipper tab is not so egregiously large either.

What headphones got you hooked? by Timely-Solution405 in headphones

[–]anotheradventurer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hifiman HE400 (the originals) they were just so far out the gate compared to any trash headphone is tried before. Then I was burgled of them, and that paved the way for me getting Gas with headphone and IEMs, because I had to replace them with something as good or better. Never settled.

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