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[Powdah]

New to the forums, and locksports. I've been lurking on the boards for about a week now and have managed to gather a pant load full of info from the board. I have a tone of stuff to learn. Mostly working on my tensioning and how the pins feel with and without it. I've managed to fluke open a master lock #130 with a paperclip shaped into a rake and damnd if that didn't get me hooked on this stuff.. I ordered a sparrow's kick start kit last week and got it today, just to get me started for now. LOL now i'm sitting here reading the board with that same master lock and my first real short hook.

[ClutchClutch]

Hey all. Just signed up. I love lockpicking because i just like beating locks, the challenge and the feeling when it finally turns. I'll be honest, my interest originally hailed from playing too much Morrowind in high school. Look forward to gleaning much information from this site.

[Sandi Cooney]

Made my first lockpick practice board with 4 5-pin cylinders and picked three of them in less than 2 minutes but one took about 5 min to pick. Still wonder if I actually know a little what I'm doing or am I just plain lucky??

[dragonwink]

I'm from Vermont and a friend introduced me to lock picking and gave me a small pick set. I'm just beginning to discover a great many very difficult locks.

[armkar]

Greetings from Sydney! Looking forward to sharing and learning some new things on here. Cheers.

[obeisance]

Howdy! Long time, first time.

I've always been fascinated with how things work and have spend a good deal of my life taking things apart and putting them back together. A decade (or two...) ago I picked up a set of picks ans Eddie the Wire's guide but never did much with them.

Now that I'm older and have a little more patience I'm getting back into things.

[Xtrajack]

Greetings and Salutations,

I debated about joining this forum because, I don't really have a lot to contribute. I am not an experienced picker, I am a janitor in a factory. I have enjoyed moderate success picking/raking/opening some padlocks.

I have an antique brass padlock which had belonged to my grandfather. Until two days ago, I also had the key.

I did a Google search for "how do you pick an antique brass padlock?' One of the results was a thread on this board.
I was very impressed with the work of one the members here.

[brows141]

Hi to everyone,

I am not new to the site (I have been stalking) in a sense. I have "tinkered" with locks for several years for my own personal satisfaction and am confident to say that I am far from being a professional. All of my picks are home-made and have never bought a pick or pickset (although I have been tempted to). I was just notified by my company that a position for a locksmith will be opening up in the near future and that the person selected will be sent to lock school in Kentucky. Naturally I jumped at the opportunity and am in the process of gathering information for my new and exciting career.

Back to the topic, I love the site and it's choc-full of useful information and look forward to possibly contributing a bit to the forum.

[CFour]

Greetings all,

I stumbled onto this site a couple of days ago after researching "psychological manipulation" as it pertains to field interrogations in the military. I can't even begin
to tell you what article I started with, as the entire day was completely
consumed with thread after thread from this site. After reading the basics and
noob threads coupled with the MIT guide, articles by Deviant Ollam, numerous YouTube videos, and a trip to serepick.com, I was hooked. I buckled down and purchased a blemished set of Southord's and will be ready to attack when the UPS man hits the door.
To be honest, the extent of my lock manipulation skills have involved Halligan tools, sledgehammers, and doors/gates chained to Hummers. I "made" some padlock shims out of a sprite can a couple years back...epic fail, I quickly lost interest until I hit this site.
I look forward to expanding my knowledge, meeting you guys, and God willing...opening a lock or two, or as many as I can get my noob hands on.

Best quote from my last deployment about "tactical lock picking":
"Put that sledge hammer down you fu$!?1g ape! What the hell do you think the MK19 is for?"

[hytuu12345]

hi guys. i've stumbled upon this website a year or two back when i was looking for information on lockpicking. finally decided to create an account. looking to make my own set soon(after years of procrastination) and to learn the skill! so far i've managed to pick an old cupboard in my room with paper clips to my surprise. but i realise paper clips can only bring you so far.

cheers!

[Streetlight]

Hello.
Made an account here a while ago, but now I'm looking to finally start working on learning the trade, after far too much procrastination.

[PaulL]

Just saying hello to the members here. I've been an off and on lock picking hobbyist for about 9-10 years now and have decided to get back into it a little more seriously. I'm working on collecting padlocks and building a training board at the moment, so hopefully I'll have something useful to contribute in the future. My current picking efforts are going into a Master 410 safety LOTO padlock with 6 pins - 5 spool and 1 serrated. It's been...interesting. Locks have now officially replaced magazines in the bathroom.

[elpatre]

Hi there to everyone!!

newly discovered lock picking enthusiast in Hong Kong here, the nice thing is that you get very cheap locks of all variations in the many street shops, perfect for practising! See you around!

[wagna]

Hey from Australia, have been lurking on the site for a while ,finally time to say hello,
have picked (lol) up so much info and look forward to finding more :)
thanks to every ones posts

[anta40]

Hello from a new member from Indonesia.

I already had a interest in lockpicking back when in high school (2001). Bought my first lock picking book (Advanced Lock Picking by Steve Hampton), but only read a few pages of it and never tried, so yeah, I'm still a complete newb.

Moreover, I don't have any background in mechanics, so I'm sure learning lockpicking will be very challenging to me. But hopefully it will also be a fun trip to ride.

:)