First Pick A Success?

[Jareck]

I tired with paper clips for an hour, then made a tension wrench and used paper clips for the pick, that lasted 2 hours, then made my first pick and with pick and wrench it took me bout 20 Min, but still not sure how I got it open LOL...couldnt get it open again, I could hear 3 of the 4 pins click nad the wrench would move, but couldnt get that 4th pin to go.
Mike

[nothumbs]

My first lock was the Schlage 5 pin on my front door via a Dyno Kwick Pick. Took about five minutes to get the hang of it. Second attemp was about 30 seconds. I've a better set of tools now, and am slowly working my way from stab and rake to pin at a time.

[Churchy La Femme]

Wow.

I must be stupid.

I have a new set, and I've tried on several locks a couple of times

No dice.

[raimundo]

tell us which brand locks are stopping you and maybe we can help, some locks are virtually unpickable, (virtually, not literally)

[Churchy La Femme]

I've got a SouthOrd 14 piece kit I just got.

I've got a pretty good technical idea of how lockpicking works.

I've tried to pick 2 Schlages inside my house, one Sargeant, and a third brand, the name of which escapes me.

I can get one or two pins to catch each time, but I only know that because I hear them fall back down when I take out the tensioner.

I'm seriously considering getting a lock to practice on by taking out the pins, but I'd really like it if I didn't need to. I have trouble feeling what's going on inside the lock, I can never tell what pin I'm on, nor what pins have caught.

I'm a crazy n00b.

[Afisch]

Just picked my first "door style" pin tumbler lock been on padlocks till now so having fun. Used to secure my mates door, im shocked that people secure their homes with locks like this. Then again, im not one for security, lock or not, theres always a way in if people want to badly enough.

[SEVEN]

Congratulations

[Churchy La Femme]

I think there must be something wrong with me. I still haven't got it.

I'm trying right now on a master lock...the #3?

[raimundo]

ya gotta lighten up churchy, dont even think about what pin is setting, just visit them all and give a small light push to each as you watch a tv show and only half concentrate on the picking, it'll come to ya.

[thubanpete]

Don't worry, Chruchy. The touch will come in time.

I'm pretty new at this myself. I've only recently gotten to the point of being halfway decent, and have noticed that it's been by "falling on my face" time and again.

I encourage you to keep on practicing, and not to give up. When you finally pop a lock, it's one of those moments that'll stay with you for a while (in a good way, of course )

Keep on it. You'll do great!

-ThubanPete

[habitatxskate]

I JUST PICKED A LOCK OMG!

haha, its a luggage sized master, i used one tool, the "small half diamond" i made myself...no torsion, nothing, i just lined the lines up and made some leverage, hit some type of switch or something, i can do it in under 5 seconds if its working correctly...

[cjames73]

I JUST PICKED A LOCK OMG!

well done!

you have to try a master lock now, you'll need to use a tension wrench though

[Avenger]

it was sunday afternoon, kinda nice evening for a date, i met her in my office, after few minutes of conversation she let me go in...was she really that easy? i pushed, and suddenly i'm inside, a part of me was pushing her in the other direction, they said it was necesary if i wanted to get what i was aiming for, and then it happened, a burst of happiness, i did it, she was my first, primitive, yet nice, my first...

...wafer lock

[julian1000]

30 seconds...

the back pin was the binding pin, it was an off brand padlock I got at the dollar store. Lol.

When I buy a deadbolt I expect it'll take at least an hour.

[allenrs]

I just started the foley course im on first 5 lessons just to try i made a pick from a hack saw blade and in 10 seconds i picked a 50mm master lock. now Im fired up .