DVD Lockpicking for the new millennium

[pickmonger]

I bought this DVD through http://www.picklocks.com

It is also being sold on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=617&item=6404630264&rd=1

Emails to the vendor were promply answered.

Priced at $29 American, it costs about $47 in Canadian Funds after customs adds $5 for handling, PST, GST ... Canada customs also does sometimes open this DVD to check for lock picks.

This DVD provides professionally produced (80 mins ) good quality video , watchable on your TV or computer.

David Storm seems to really know his stuff and presents easy to understand explanations and demos.

Using a good cutaway lock you can really see what is happening with both regular and security pins when picking techniques are demonstrated.

I think that this DVD is intended for people who want to learn basics .. For these people it does an excellent job. The very beginer and more experianced will find the teaching very helpfull.

Professional locksmiths and skilled lockpickers can see from the topics covered that they may find little new to learn.

Chapters include:

1 Intro
2 The Basics
3 Rake Picking
4 Master Keyed
5 Handcuffs
6 Double Sided Locks
7 Warded Locks
8 Pin Tumbler Locks
9 Plug Spinner
10 Tubular locks
11 Mushroom Pins
12 Electric Pick
13 Improvised Electric Pick
14 Security Chains
15 Security Latches
16 Simplex Style Locks
17 Auto Body Dent Puller
18 Drilling A lock
19 Padlock Shims
20 Master 175 Padlock
21 Straight Pick Bypass
22 Gun Locks
23 Snap Pick Gun
24 Unusual Techniques
25 Picking with a Key
26 Rekeying
27 Jack Knife Pick
28 Schlage Wafer Pick
29 Bonus Footage
30 Credits

[Geek142]

Sounds interesting... what parts of it did you find most useful?

Geek

[vector40]

This actually does look pretty neat, and maybe worth checking out.

Hey, would anyone be interested in a group buy? Chip in a few bucks if you want to see it, and we'll mail it around and watch it in turn. It's just a DVD, shouldn't cost anything to ship.

[pun1sher]

sorry to burst your bubbles, but this guy sounds to me like a salesman. reread his post and i dare you not to agree.

[pick_maker]

from the auction item description:

locksmith for over twenty years and has taught at gun shows and lecture halls for over eight.

Gun shows in my state are pretty lame, then. bunch of fat eass dealers beitching about why john mccain isn't president.

This guy also made 'The Locksmith' CD everyone has and is copying.

[pick_maker]

I took a gander at the seller's feedback. hmmmm.

In my eBay experience, I have run into problems with sellers who have feedback (pos or neg) posted by customers with the status 'No longer a registered user'.

Here's fun: follow the trail of the noregs and whattya know, even more noregs!

AND a user ID naming pattern is detectable as well.

[samsonai]

Well, I'm David Storm and I have never offered
such a lame product as those locksmithing CD’s.

I would like to hear from anyone that watches my video
and compares it to any other on the market. My content is
original, accurate and gleaned from countless encounters with
real world locksmithing problems.

In my opinion the master 175 padlocks trick I teach is worth
the price of admission alone, not to mention the super, in focus
cut away locks I pick, using a variety of picking techniques. I have
taught a great many locksmiths how to pick locks. I know that
sounds egotistical but it's true. I had one locksmith at a show
come up to me and say, "How many pins do you have in that lock?"
All five I said and proceeded to push up the pins with the flat side
of a diamond pick and pull it out slowly let each pin click off one by one.

He still didn't believe so he disappeared and reappeared carrying a
Schlage 6 pin cylinder, a Best IC core and an American brand Padlock,
I think it was a series 30 or so. I picked the American first in under a
two minutes, then I picked the IC core, I was praying I would hit the
change key depths but no such luck, lol. Then I picked the Schlage
cylinder with a deforester as I detected a high pin in the back with
low cuts in the front.

Well, that got his attention and he finally concurred that I was the real
thing and proceeded to hang out at my table for the rest of the day
trading "secrets" back and forth. And that day he picked an American
for the first time along with an Abus buffalo lock and several other locks
he had previously thought were unpickable.

Here's a little about me...

I started performing magic onstage when I was 8 years old
I became interested in escapology when I was around 11
by age fifteen I could pick locks better than any local locksmith
and went to work for two brothers who owned a locksmith shop.

I was too young to drive so their mother would drive me to houses,
cars and storefronts to do lockouts. You haven't lived until you seen
the look on an adults face when they see some 15 year old kid open
a dead bolt faster than they could get their key out.

I actually started popping the locks in under a minute and just pretended
to take longer because so many people were getting genuinely pissed and
refusing to pay $30.00 for something that took a "kid" only seconds to do.

I am right now working on a high security video in high definition
scheduled for release next year that will teach how to open Medeco
Bi-axial, Schlage Primus, DOM, Multi-lock, Abloy Granite locks and high
end safe manipulation.

And yes I am a salesman as well, I've had to be, but a lot of that has
come from my background as a performer. I produced, directed, edited
and starred in this entire DVD. It was produced with a high end 3-ccd
camera and Liquid Pinnacle Edition.

In the end it's really up to you. lol it's absolutely no skin off my teeth. In
fact if you missed my introductory offers on Ebay they are now gone
forever because I was only selling them that low to get some quick
cash into my Paypal account.

Southern Ordnance (Southord.com) and GunVideo.com just picked up the
video and their going to be taking over the bulk of the online sales. This
of course will free up more time for me so I can finish my upcoming
videos. In the video I use almost exclusively the Southord tools. I feel they
are the best on the market for their price. Yes the Falle set from MBA
(Mark Bates & Associates) is better but good luck getting it if you're
not a locksmith and if you do it will certainly lighten your wallet way
more than a set from southord.

If you go to the southord site they don't have the video available yet as
they are waiting for the pictures to come back so they can post them. But
they did post the coming soon ad in which they say my video is the "The
finest Professional Locksmith Course, available on either Video CD or
DVD!" It isn't available on CD though so I'm not quite sure what they had
in mind but they did say it was the finest available. No ego here, lol.

On that note if you’re used to using thick, bulky handmade tools I think you’ll
Be amazed at how much a nice double diamond or ultra thin deforester pick
makes a difference. This is coming from someone, who in my day didn’t have
Stainless steel tools, they were HPC clock spring tools and they were clunky
and tight in high security locks or even residential Schlage’s.

Hope I didn’t come off too cocky I just had a fellow customer write me and tell
me about this thread and I thought I would respond. I hope to frequent this forum
now and share in the knowledge.

Best of wishes,
David Storm

[vector40]

Glad to see he's confident, anyway

[digital_blue]

Don't beat around the bush David, tell us what you think...

j/k, Welcome to the forum.

db

[Varjeal]

Welcome to the site.

I saw a clip from the video about your method on tubular lockpicking and have to say we're going to have to have a little private chat about that sometime.

Anyways, good quality video.

[fixer]

I took a gander at the seller's feedback. hmmmm.

In my eBay experience, I have run into problems with sellers who have feedback (pos or neg) posted by customers with the status 'No longer a registered user'.

Here's fun: follow the trail of the noregs and whattya know, even more noregs!

AND a user ID naming pattern is detectable as well.

When I look at Davids feedback, I see he purchased from several people that are no longer registered users, but only has 2 people that bought from him that are no longer registered. When you look at a 'noreg', also look at their number of sales. Some that David purchased from have over 1000 ebay sales. Some people stopped selling on ebay because of the increasingly restrictive rules of this California based company.

Naming patterns are inevitable on ebay with the user base being so large that many people want the same name and end up with {myname}{number} type id's.

[samsonai]

Thank you for that explanation, I had a hard time figuring out
what he meant by some of that, now I understand. Also my name has no
number that's a letter i behind samsona making it samsonai a play
on the Vedic word Samsarai, the illusionary reality of all things and
Samson, who was stripped of his power due to lust.

I would also
like to add that a great deal of those buyers and sellers were from
an online game I played for a while called Diablo II. I sold items collected
and characters generated for moderate sums.

I made $800 off one group of characters. Remember these are ones and
zeros, nothing more and remain the digital and intelectual property of
Blizzard, the games host. Well, not many play that game any more and
most of those noregs are former buyers and sellers for the game.
When it went belly up so did the eBay industry.

Anyway thanks for the warm welcome... Glad to be here.

As to the private chat regarding the Tubular technique, do
you think it is invalid, superior or too difficult in relation to the
"old" tried and true rotate the pick until it opens method?

[pick_maker]

I stand by my comments. eBay is a playground for shill bidding, ID heisting et cetera. The speed at which an acount with phoney feedback can be created is remarkable. However I did reference my own experience- over 1,200 transactions- which won't match everyone elses, but anyway.

I probably have samsonai confused with someone else so for that I apologize if I am wrong. The similiarities between the Locksmith CD I mentioned and the item description of this DVD are similar, however.

To prove me ultimately wrong and worthy of a slap in the face, is there a sample clip you can provide here in this topic?

[Mad Mick]

...I hope to frequent this forum now and share in the knowledge.

Best of wishes,
David Storm

Welcome David, I sincerely hope you can stick around too.

[vector40]

David emailed me a brief clip; with his permission, I can host and link to it here.