Which BS Lever to design for

[Lukekjackson]

This might take a bit of explaining, but here goes,

I’m curious as to whether there is a BS Lever lock (in the standard range, not RKS, E series) that's so difficult to design a pick wire for, that once you have mastered it, the resulting pick will be able to pick all the other locks. Is there one particular lock that has a nasty curtain, really low levers or some other oddity?

I realise that some locks are manufactured to a higher standard and as such, they are more difficult to pick (less feed back, etc) but that reflects more on the skill of the user than the tool. What I’m interested in is getting the actual shape of the wire right, to at least make it possible.

I know the answer to this would be to buy every lock and refine a tool as I went, but theirs quite a lot of money involved in that, and I don’t think the girlfriend would be two happy with a pile of 50 (?) locks sat next to the TV.

Hope that makes sense, tell me if it sounds like meaningless waffle

[Shrub]

Buy a pack of 2 CB wires for just less than £20 then design a handle and curtain turner with them,

[pinky]

no wire will pick all, the fortress and securefast wires are too long to pick a union and a legge.
1 wire will never do all, but the wires are the cheap bit to make

[Lukekjackson]

Shrub,
Believe me I’d happily buy some of the CB equipment but as I’m not a trading locksmith it isn’t an option, so I’m stuck with the homebrew gear for now.

Pinky,
Looks like theirs no way round it then I’ll have to make sure when I buy a house it has a spare room allocated to my pile of “locks and crap” (the girlfriends words not mine).

On the plus side its always more rewarding if you do it all yourself