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My homemade pick

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 Geek142 » 21 Mar 2005 2:41

Hello everbody

This post is getting less and less attention everyday i have to try keep up and keep it going :)

I have recently picked a lockwood 120/40 and now i can pick it in a matter of seconds, I have a few homemades not shown in these pictures because i dont keep them in my set.

I have picked most of my locks except the big Chrome lockwood 234/45 that says OQ on the keyway (very thin) and the big rusty looking one (Picks are to scared to even go in there hehehe :D )

I am getting a set of hpc's from romstar so i probably wont be making any picks for a while, But sometimes i might get out my grinder when i am bored.

So here is all of my stuff at the moment
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All of my pins and locks i have taken apart and i have also made a tweeser shaped like a pin at the top so i can hold them easier but the picture doesnt look very good.
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Here is a close up of my locks
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And here is a picture of the case my mum made me closed, You can see it open in the picture above
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And thats it

Cya everyone
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Postby stick » 21 Mar 2005 18:28

The Falle curve pick you made is made from a hacksaw right? How strong is it?
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Postby Geek142 » 22 Mar 2005 2:33

Yep, I made it out of a flexible highspeed steel hacksaw blade.
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Postby Geek142 » 28 Mar 2005 5:20

Oh and yes it is strong and provides great feed back.
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died

Postby Geek142 » 29 Mar 2005 7:27

Hello

As you might have read in the Lp101 cemetery my homemade computer pick from skold has died. But I have made a newer on that looks exactly like its father except it has a chubbier body :wink:

i dont have a picture at the moment but i will later when i borrow a camera.

I am planning on making more computer picks because i find it more interesting then making normal pick since i have made heaps already.

Geek
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Postby skold » 29 Mar 2005 15:43

you killed it :cry: :cry:
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Postby Geek142 » 30 Mar 2005 2:35

No i didnt. I didnt even press hard, i wonder why all your picks are breaking that you have sent me including the saw tooth rake the double sided pick on of the tips broke of the one that is a diamond looking hook and now the computer pick. I wonder why all yours are breaking
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Postby skold » 30 Mar 2005 3:45

how long did ya let them rust for?
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Postby Geek142 » 31 Mar 2005 4:09

i dont let them rust i sand them with a coarse emery paper or with my rotary then use a fine emery
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Postby Geek142 » 31 Mar 2005 5:28

Hey people

Here are some homemade computer picks i made and the one with the sanded handle is in the memory of the pick skold made me.

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Excuse the crude pictures they arent really that rough they are really smooth in real life its just how to scanner has scanned them so excuse the picture. I will try take a photo with my friends camera and then the picture will be better. Any comments?

Cya
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Postby skold » 31 Mar 2005 5:31

very very very nice ... .. .. yay it looks like my old pick..i shall call him "mini me" *does the whole dr evil act with the finger*
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Postby Geek142 » 31 Mar 2005 5:38

Lol i tried to make him exactly like his " mini-me's father :wink: "

Cya
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Postby zeke79 » 31 Mar 2005 8:30

Excellent picks to you both geek142 and skold! They look Great.
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Wow

Postby raimundo » 31 Mar 2005 8:41

Wow, ya did that just by rubbing a computer on the hacksaw blades? Im impressed. :P
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Re: Wow

Postby Geek142 » 1 Apr 2005 2:31

raimundo wrote:Wow, ya did that just by rubbing a computer on the hacksaw blades? Im impressed. :P


Well not like that LOL :D
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