ARCHIVE 2003-2013 Introduce yourself HERE if you are new. :)

[stratmando]

Do you sell beads?

[nix4me]

Hello everyone at LP101. :)

I've been reading the site for about a week, and joined yesterday.

I can see myself hanging out here for a long, long time. Great work on the site, and there seems to be many decent people here.

cheers,
nix4me

[norcalpicker]

hello everyone. I started off bumping locks and had a little bit of fun doing it, however the lack of skill made this quickly grow boring. I had picked up a bump guard, smartkey kwickset and, to my surprise, was not able to bump it. i opened it up and was fascinated with how it worked. I then bought a starter pickset from southord and am having a great time so far. I haven't been able to get the kwickset open. what are some good beginner locks? this seems like a great site and look forward to learning from all of you here.

[phos]

Hi everyone,

Long time lurker, first time joiner. I've been playing with locks for a couple of years now, picking them up here and there. For my first lockpicks I bought a nice Southord set and couldn't be happier with them. This is a wonderful forum for information and I consider myself stupid for not joining sooner.

[Perrin]

Hi all,

I'm in the UK, have just registered with the site and I'm completely new to lockpicking. It's something I've been wanting to try since I was a kid, so now I've finally decided to do something about it. I figured a forum like this would be a good starting point.

Hope to participate meaningfully once I have more of a clue. :)

[lixocan]

Hello :) thanks, i hope to learn a lot with this site
Thanks

[lou1]

Hi everyone- just introducing myself - looks like a great forum!

[Poff]

I got into picking and locksmithing out of necessity for my Wife's business and my rental unit. Got some picks from my brother a few years back and have always been intrigued. Been doing some basic locksmithing for a few years now, basic re-keys, simple commercial lock and door stuff. Started dabbling in picking about a year ago, got some free commercial locks for the business and they came without keys so I picked them open to re-key and have been fascinated and practicing here and there ever since.

[wa1ker00]

Just dropping in to say hello. I'm a few months into an apprenticeship at a local locksmithing shop and stumbled upon these forums and am looking forward to learning more and accelerating my career.

[Mountaingoat]

well I am new here, Im from missouri and i am just a beginner lock picker. I was debating on whether or not to venture into a side job as lockpicking and seeing how practical that idea may be

[rattis]

Hi, I'm new.

I'm in the Ann Arbor, MI area currently and looking to find others to help start a group, or an established group to join.

I got my first set of lock picks about back in the late 90s, but was never able to pick a lock until recently. I ended up watching a bunch of videos on Youtube and figured out what I was doing. Since then I've given that set away (for free, heard it's on to it's 4th owner now), and have bought a nice kit.

I work in computers, mostly networking, linux and security. So picking seemed like a nice skill to brush up on and improve.

[Shaun1987]

Hey guys, new here!

A bit about me..... I live in England and I just began picking as a hobby recently, I'm fairly bad at it and thats why i'm here! to learn.

So far, I have picked (In no order):

1 pin padlock
5pin padlocks (cheap and easy)
tubular 'practice' lock

I'm currently working on cracking a euro cylindrical lock, I need a dual tension wrench I think (I ordered a few tools I required). Either way i'm struggling on this. Tomorrow i'll have a go at applying alot more tension than usual and rake the shit out of it. See if it gets me anywhere :D

[benjaminbarnes]

Hello everyone,

My name is Benjamin and I am new to lock picking. I have always wanted to do it so I'm glad that I'm finially picking it up. I just bought a 14 piece American lock pick set and hopefully once I get it I can start learning. Thank you for making this forum, I look forward to meeting many of you.

Ben

[dr rockso]

Hi everybody. Registered here a couple days ago and have been reading a lot ever since.

A brief introduction; when I was a young teenager, around '98 or so, I stumbled across the MIT Guide to Lockpicking in some long-forgotten corner of the internet. Printed it out to show my similarly-minded cousin, and we spent a weekend trying to replicate some of the designs with various implements we'd "borrowed" from around our houses (some steak knives, a perfectly good hacksaw blade, and one of his brother's bicycle spokes). We didn't have access to a bench grinder or dremel, so we hand-filed a few crude picks and tension tools. Opened a couple of padlocks and deadbolts, mostly by pure luck I imagine, simply raking with crude diamond-ish picks.

A couple weeks ago I ran across something or other that made me think back to my abortive effort with lockpicking more than a decade ago. I finished a mechanical engineering BS last year, and I've always liked working on highly mechanical things (cars, motorcycles, firearms, etc) so this seems like a natural thing to do. While I love fabricating things, and intend to 'roll my own' in the near future, I thought it best to order a set of manufactured picks (Southord MPXS-14) to get off on the right foot. I'm looking forward to learning a fun new skill, and this site looks like an excellent resource.

[hdusch]

Hello
I'm a retired electronic tech that took a safe repair course about 40 years ago. I have been hooked on safes and locks ever since. I have never worked in the profession, however I have a collection of 19 different safes (they take up more room than baseball cards) and a bunch of different locks. I do not have any real technical information about any of them , I just try to figure out how things work then go on to another.

Thirty years ago I purchased a used Canteen step van. I had a key to the ignition but no door key. I made some picks and for the three years I owned the truck, I picked the lock several times a day.



Hello again

Harold Dusch