My set.

[Ri0t]

i just started to lock pick and so far i picked 2 lock using a flatheade screw driver and a paper clip. is there anything else i can use around the house to pick?

[deetS]

erm i think i understand more when u speak english
Thanks for the translation (: She's so bad
cf : http://www.newffr.com/viewforum.php?ses ... &forum=239

[lock_assassin]

Well I finally got the digital camera somewhat figured out, so here is my lockpicking tools. Excuse the bad pics, my wife is the photographer in the family!



Yes I did break down and buy the Schlage Wafer Tool. The Peterson kit is probably my favorite one. I added some rubber handled HPC picks because I really like the diamond hook tool. The Peterson reach tool is really great for reaching those back pins also. The pick gun is standard and I really haven't used it a whole lot because I like single pin picking the best. Both tubular pics are the new Southord ones. Top left pick set is Southord MPXS 32 standard set. Other items are tension wrenches and double sided picks. Never used the Sesame decoder so I don't know if it even works. It came with the combo kit I bought.



HPC Pro-mixer set and I bought the rest of the 2000 series stainless picks to fill out the set. Automotive Rocker pick set I have had for a few months and bought a couple ford & GM locks from my local NAPA to practice on. Last set is the C3010 Southord slimline pick set.



This is the first pick set I ever bought, Southords' standard 14 piece spring steel kit. Has 3 tension wrenches, 10 picks and the case was counted as 1 piece too back then I believe. I got it from the Edge Company many years ago and I bought the Southord MPXS-20 zipper case because I like it better than the snap case. I now use the snap case for my plug spinner. The plug spinner is the cheap on from Southord, it does the job. Last item is the Majestic key extractor set.

Not a lot of really exotic stuff but this is what I have besides pinning kits and standard tools like plug followers, tweezers, tools for removing Key in Knobs for Kwikset, Schlage, and the other standard hands tools like screw drivers, allen wrenches, etc. I have a few practice locks but am still looking for more.

Thanks for looking...

lock_assassin

[Mad Mick]

That's some nice kit there, and worth quite a bit too. Now where's the emoticon for 'envious'.........

[Chucklz]

<~~ green with envy perhaps?


That particular Peterson set...... something we all can drool over. Wow.

[mbell]

Most of my tools - left the majority of my homemade picks at a friends house. The box to the bottom right is for 2 in 1 picks, wires, key turners etc... for UK lever locks.

[lock_assassin]

I am lucky to have a good enough day job to support my hobby!!! I have always liked the stainless tools the best. But don't get me wrong, it took a long time to get what I have. I still pick up change on the ground and in vending machines! I started buying picking tools when I was in my early teens (with the help of my dad) and have been adding ever since. Dad always figured he had a free lockout service in turn for helping buy the tools when I was younger. I have been saving for an Abloy decoder next but I started talking to Peterson about a Medeco tool they sell so that money for the abloy tool may be gone now too! I guess if you gonna have a habit there are a lot worse ones than lock picking!!!!!

lock_assassin

[Chucklz]

Peterson is coming out with a Medeco tool !!!!!!!!!


I have their tubular pick..... It is amazing.

[Mad Mick]

Another nice set mbell.

[lock_assassin]

Nice set of tools you got there mbell! How do you like those Rytan picks? I opted for the peterson tools instead. Some of the Rytan shapes are about the same as my southord slimlines and HPC 2000 picks. The Rytan handles seem a lot bigger than the peterson ones too. I would like to have the 2 in 1 tool but I don't know if I would have a use for it here in the US. If I could I would just buy one of every tool out there, starting with the COMPLETE Falle line of tools. But until I hit the lottery....

Again nice set of tools and thanks for sharing them with us...

lock_assassin

[mbell]

They're not rytans (I assume you mean those in the bottom right). It's just the Peterson Tri-Fold "Masters" set. Would like to get hold of some Rytans if at all possible but I can't find anywhere that'll ship them to the UK. Anyone help me?

I use a combination of picks all the time but I tend to keep them in thier original cases (makes my life easier). I love the HPC colour coded picks & I've altered some to "slimline picks" for the narrow keyways. I had a set of falle's picks up until a few months ago when I sold them for twice what I bought them for (after copying most of the picks with hacksaw blades). Really wish i hadn't sold them now...

[lock_assassin]

Yep. My mistake. The ones I was looking at were the ones in the middle right on the bottom. Are those Brockhage(sp) or are they also petersons? It is the set with the plug spinner on the far left in the case.

lock_assassin

[mbell]

Oh yes, those in the middle at the bottom are the "Brockhage" navigator pick set. I think they're actually made by some OEM company that makes them & prints Brockhage's nam on them (Lockpicks.com owner).

The set has some nice picks, some nice thinner and slimline picks. The majority are useful tools but I cannot see the application for some of them.

[Chucklz]

About the Brockhage picks. I know that a few are meant for Dimple locks, so they may the picks your staring at wondering what the heck good they would be.

[mbell]

Thanks Chucklz: I suspected that's what the two of them are for. I have no dimple type locks to try them with. There's the 'Tuplip pick' too, which I removed from the set, along with the tension wrenches which were far to wide to fit in the locks I tried them on.