Training aids

[compromizer]

If anyone is interested in practicing picking. I just bought a lockpicking bonanza thing on ebay. Waiting for it to come in the mail but it comes with a couple cutaway locks and a tower for holding the cylinders. I am wanting to get better at picking locks with spool pins.

[Archive555]

So, what are you saying?
You want to get together with other pickers?

Need to make it a little clearer for us...

[datagram]

I think what he is saying is that he wants to practice picking spool pins. Don't know what a "lockpicking bonanza" is...

Anyways, to practice spool pins set up low-pin count cylinders. Start with a single pin spool cylinder, learn to feel how it catches, then move on to more and more pins as you progress. Start by forcing the pin to catch with too much tension, learn how it feels. Then adjust to pick it normally. Once you can do your own 5 pin, have someone else insert the spool pin in an unknown chamber, and take your time to identify what chamber it is in. After that, you can try additional spool pins, or additional security pins alongside the spool pin. Each has a unique feel, but overall same strategy to defeat them: easy on the tension!

dg