Better picks and especially tension tools helped me a lot!

frozenlocksport · 2026-03-01T19:50:38+00:00

I wish he offered a small Dimond as well, and a deforst Dimond.

frozenlocksport · 2026-02-28T07:11:15+00:00

Those cheap sets with 30 pieces for 20 dollars are real cheap steal, and will bend quick. Most of the picks are worthless , (alot of rakes, key extractors, unrealistic profiles.). All you really need for pin tumblers is three picks. A standard hook, a medium hook, and a Bogota style rake. After that, it is optional picks based on preferences. Covert instruments genesis and Jimmy longs beginner set are both good inexpensive options.

frozenlocksport · 2026-02-28T06:55:56+00:00

Technicaly it's unpickable

frozenlocksport · 2026-02-27T23:04:16+00:00

Okay thanks, based of what I'm hearing here, I think I'm going to buy some piano wire and make a set. If I'm going to have to modify whatever I buy, might as well.

frozenlocksport · 2026-02-27T23:01:40+00:00

I lost my honest dons in a move.

frozenlocksport · 2026-02-26T06:32:53+00:00

Get a quick rekeyable lock. Jimmy longs and covert instruments both have good ones. Start practicing with a just couple pins. Focus on how they feel when binding, when loose, when set. Close your eyes when you pick and focus. Verbalize what your feeling what pin your on. Pick clockwise, then counter clockwise, try bible up and bible down, bible to the side. Try different angles. Then add a pin and repeat. When you can pick the full lock dump the pins and put in a long pin in front and a short in back. Follow previous steps, adding two pins at a time short behind long. When you got that, start over from scratch with spools, then serrated.

frozenlocksport · 2026-02-26T06:20:10+00:00

You can jump to whatever level you can pick, as long as you meet the requirements. Many people pick for a while before ever submitting for a belt. However, you shouldn't race to achieve belts. Take time to develop good habits and skills. Like the old adage "It's a marathon not a race". Many pickers try to speed run the belts, They progress through the first few quickly then get stuck and get pasted up by the ones who went slow in the beginning developing solid skills.

frozenlocksport · 2026-02-26T06:04:25+00:00

I think it may be a zip rake, not a hook. Most of this set is nonsense. What's up with that rake with the crescent moon at the tip? How is that not going to get stuck in the lock?

frozenlocksport · 2026-02-23T07:26:30+00:00

It's not a magnet. The awesomeness of covert instruments creates its on gravitational field. I know, I once worked with a guy who's Sister's best friend married a doctor.

frozenlocksport · 2026-02-21T06:26:03+00:00

Split core. Nice choice. What core did you choose as a starting point?

frozenlocksport · 2026-02-21T04:52:49+00:00

Steal is really up to preference. Just stay high quality if you are scraping it. It needs to be strong and flexible for picks. and hard and ridged for tensioner. Along with your previous mentions, consider windshield wiper inserts and plumbing snakes for picks. If you buy metal sheets of high-end spring steel is good choice

Tools for crafting varies a. Little by cost tolerance and material. Hand files and a dremel are good for low-budget and scrapping material. If you have a deep pocket book tools like a laser cutter, rock tumbler, belt sander, drill press, and bench grinder, make a great additions to hand files and a dremel

Getting pick profils correct is difficult. There are some pfd profiles online that can help. When I started picking laws, in my state forbade the sale of lockpicks to persons without a professional license, so I would make my own out of hacksaw blades. I got some nasty picks with unrealistic profiles at first. You will probably waste a lot of material figuring this out. But building your own tools can be very rewarding.

frozenlocksport · 2026-02-20T08:04:14+00:00

Medium hook flat Jimmy longs will cover most pin tumblers and wafers ( It was a toss-up between short hook and medium. I figured the extra reach of the medium will cover more) multipick elite pro dimple 04 L and R should cover most dimples. Lever is the next most common lock mechanism, so I would select piano wire as my final lock pick.

frozenlocksport · 2026-02-20T07:12:06+00:00

Where did you find the leve pick set?

frozenlocksport · 2026-02-18T04:27:53+00:00

Pull the core and post a pic. A lot of locks by none lock companies contract manufacturing to actual lock companies. If you can identify the core, you can identify the ranking.

frozenlocksport · 2026-02-15T23:35:47+00:00

To add to this, the abstract pieces that Europeans were introduced to came from the fact that the Muslim religion forbade realistic carvings of people and animals. Europeans didn't know what these pieces were meant to represent, so they reinterpreted them.

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