Hey ekips,
Those look like some good picks, congratulations on your first set!
(Good scan by-the-way)
May I comment on some of your picks?
Ok, thanks for letting me!
I think that your Half-Diamond, the one on the far left, is rather skinny and appears to be flimsy. I just have images in my head of it breaking, perhaps you may want to remake it a little bit thicker. I like your deep curve, but, it also looks rather flimsy. Perhaps your pick material is stonger than most?
I like the look of your rake (second from left), it appears that it would be very effective, any luck with it yet? The L-Rake (is that what its called) (third from left) appears to have a rather large number of serrations or hills and vallies etc. You may be interested in modifying that particular rake to have a greater variety of heights. Like this one for example
http://www.lockpickshop.com/p-SP-12.html. The idea here is to almost try and replicate a key which when pulled in and out and rocked back and forth will try many pin configurations and eventually compromise the lock.
Other than those few little things, you have yourself an excellent looking pickset, I would even reccommend submiting them to the homebrew hall of fame, (look at the top of this forum).
On the topic of tension wrenches, many people reccomend street sweeper bristles. These can be found in the roads especcially near the sidewalk and the curb where there is a better chance a bristle will break off. If, like me, there are no street sweepers around where you live, you may definetly be interested in some windshield wiper blade inserts (the metal strip inside windshield wipers) You can get this as your local garage etc.
Try a variety of tension wrenches, such as thickness, bend angles (to a certain degree) amount bent, etc to find what works for you.
Good luck and post if you need any help,
Treeson
