slim line pick vs standard.

[hurri]

Slimline are used for european and japanese locks with a narrow keyway...so...i would need some..

[illusion]

That's really cool Elminster.

So... Do you find the slimline picks too fragile?

No they don't seem all that fragile at all. I wouldn't try to pry open a sliding glass door with them but treat them the same as a hacksaw blade and your ok. The stress that you put on them is on the thin edge which has more strenght than the flat axis of the pick. Don't use the pick as a tension wrench or that's all you'll use it for from that point on.

Oh cool, I'm glad they are working well for you.

So slimline picks are fine for beginners then, and it actually promotes better picking technique.

[strapon]

i gotta ask, other than the size difference (obviously some normal picks wont fit into restrictive keyways/european locks)what is the difference between standard pickjs and slimline?
some poeple say strength, but i would imagine that if you rnt a complete brute you wont have to worry about that.
and a final question why bother with standard picks if you come up against an american lock, if you have slimline pick surely they will do the job just as well?
as i say, complete noob so im just asking

[illusion]

Well the placement of the tang on the handle changes for a few of the picks, but aside from that they're the same.

The strength issue, as you correctly surmised isn't a big deal at all.

I don't really know why you'd bother with standard picks to be honest - someone will have to step in and tell me the advantage.

[strapon]

cheers illusion, your are the dude!
great manuals/guide by the way. absolutly brilliant, realy helpfull

[Shrub]

Well the thicker picks are for the heavy handed and why have smaller picks that sometimes need a little more care to use when hamfisted begineers can ram a big thick piece of steel into a keyway instead lol

The more likely case is that the original sets were the us sizeing and then when europe started with the slimmer keyways a new set of sizes were used, as theres probably so many people making them with so many dies set up and machined etc it would be silly to stop making a good seller that works fine in some parts of the world so instead they carry on and simply make an extra set that fits in the slimmer locks,

As to why they havent dies out yet? greed of the manufacturers i think,