Allmytimerblongtothis wrote:yeah 2 days and your allready down to 9 seconds? when i started i took a week before i realized i was overdoing the tension and started picking that fast and consistantly what guide did you use?
The visual guide to lockpicking 2nd edition. I have very large hands but I am dextrous from many years of video games and soldering small electrical components.
The kwikset locks are a joke. Raking them is so easy someone with advanced arthritis could do it. I can pick them in seconds using a rake, but I won't learn anything that way. So now I am using the small hook pick and trying it a pin at a time. Now I'm actually getting my fingers to learn the 'feel' of the lock, and getting my fingers to tell me what my eyes cant.
For instance, I've noticed that allthough both deadbolts look the same from the outside, the more expensive one has a very different feel to the pins. They are harder to push up, feel more grabby when they slide, and the lock just feels like it never quite broke in.
The cheaper kwikset deadbolt used to be on my front door and saw years of use. So it's pins feel light, and loose in their holes. When I get the pins on that one past the sheer point they just drop down without the spring very smoothly. The fingers actually tell me that the lock is worn a little, something my eyes can't tell from the outside.
I really like the tactile skill involved. It's kind of like trying to learn to read braille. When you start seeing with your fingers you start to notice things from a new perspective.
For instance last night I noticed that my desk vibrates ever so slightly when my hard disk isn't asleep, when it wakes up there is the slightest vibration, but no noise. I can now tell if my disks are in sleep mode just by touching my hands to the keyboard or desk.
I think touch is one of the under-rated and under-developed senses.
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