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First Home made pick Help

When it comes down to it there is nothing better than manual tools for your Lock pick Set, whether they be retail, homebrew, macgyver style. DIY'ers look here.

Postby Santos718 » 31 Jul 2005 2:06

Its not a Southord, its not long enough, and it is pretty close to a Falles, but I'm going to have to go with cracksman on this one. Peterson
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Postby Shadowx » 4 Aug 2005 14:35

As for the rake with no handle, it is a copy of a Southord L rake copy. My home printer is broken so I had to sketch a template. The handles themselves are made of pieces of cheap waterballoon launcher bands that snapped. I'm guessing that it is just surgical tubing. I recently opened a padlock very easily with the hook. This hook has problems on locks that have high variation in the hieghts of the pins, will a longer possibly full hook work better on this? More suggestions and critique wanted.
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Postby pretender » 4 Aug 2005 15:02

You can either make a pick with a deeper hook radius or make a thinner pick that'll allow you to get more of an angle inside the lock and hit the relevant pins.

Most people from what I can tell usually have around three different "depths" of hook pick for occurrences like this.
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