Peterson Pry Bars

[Sandi Cooney]

Seem to be addicted to the lockpicking tools and saw the Peterson pry bars. I'm sure a lot of you have tried them and wondered what you think? They will cost me more to ship then the product itself so want to make sure its worth my while. Thanks for any comments. Just love this site! I can be lost on it for hours

[gloves]

Seem to be addicted to the lockpicking tools and saw the Peterson pry bars. I'm sure a lot of you have tried them and wondered what you think? They will cost me more to ship then the product itself so want to make sure its worth my while. Thanks for any comments. Just love this site! I can be lost on it for hours

In a few words: make your own tension tools. It's fun, totally customizable and you'll improve your metal working skills too.

Cheers

[MacGyver101]

In a few words: make your own tension tools . . .

...or just be like the rest of us who've been bitten by the lockpicking bug: just keep adding more tools to your order, until the relative shipping cost looks better.

[Sandi Cooney]

lol OK maybe I will order a few more things (that makes sense to me!)....and I can even order a bending tool to make my own! Thanks for your thoughts.
Picked my first wafer lock today. Surprisingly easy.

[Eyes_Only]

The Pry Bar tool is awesome. It's the tension tool I rely on for most pin-tumbler locks I pick. But be careful which one you get, because they have two versions. A standard one and the thinner "lite" version.

I only use the "lite" on keyways that are more restrictive or smaller. The standard size will do most locks.

And that tension wrench bending tool is nice too. It was so much fun for me to use that tool, that I ended up running out of all my wiper inserts in one day.

[raimundo]

tension wrench bending tool is for those who's mechanical abilities do not extend to the use of pliers.

[obeisance]

The tension wrench bending tool also takes up a significantly smaller amount of space than a pair of pliers and can be carried in a pick case. Never needed one but I can see the appeal.

[dmux]

I say buy them, the peterson pry bars are in a class of their own. I have had good use out of them. It would be a lot more work to grind out a tension wrench that thickness and have serrations on it.

[cyrano138]

I'm new to this, but I picked up both sizes to add to my pickset. They are incredibly useful, although my experience has been a little different than the poster above. I've found the lite to be the most versatile. They're both quite thick, and the standard is too big for my yale, american, master no.5, and ace 40mm padlock. It fits in my kwikset and brinks keyways. I can post photos if you're curious. If I had to only buy one, and I think that's what I'd do if I had it to do over again, I'd get the lite and never look back.

[Sandi Cooney]

thanks for everyone's input....always appreciated. I decided to buy both the Peterson pry bars and bought the flat 5-serrated set too as well as the tool to make my own tension wrenches. Yah, I want it ALL but that's just the way I fly!!!!! Enjoy the day everyone and all it has to offer. Will post when I receive and play with my new tools.

[cyrano138]

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Flat 5 set. I've been eyeing them myself, but they seem a little redundant. Correct me if I'm wrong please!

Jack

[OrangePick]

I consider my Pry Bar Lite one of the most significant tools in my kit. It's one of the few tools I've used to be successful at TOK tension, and gives you all kinds of room to work in the keyway. I would buy it again in a heartbeat and recommend it to newbies. It's the only tensor that I can't readily make.

The flat-5 set on the other hand has not been as useful to me. The only one I've really found a use for is the really skinny one -- used it on a no-name cut off lock from the military that we think is maybe an Abus -- small funky keyway on that one and nothing else would fit in it to tension it. I don't like the featherweight ones either -- I prefer to have a stiff tension tool for maximum feedback.

I wouldn't have bought the flat-5 outright but it came with the "Ken's" pickset.

[cyrano138]

Thanks for the response. The reason I was eyeing them was, at least partially, for that reason. I have an american cylinder with a Y1 keyway that none of my wrenches will work with--I'm actually heading out to the auto parts store today to grab some steel and see if I can make something that will work. Other than that I have to say I use the Peterson pry bar on just about everything. Well worth the money, in my opinion.

Jack