Picks Beginners should make?

[Squelchtone]

I have just started this "hobby" and have made a few picks and wrenches with "common" tools noted in the picture.
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1_pW ... sp=sharing
And now is looking for a more seasoned outlook on the art and was wondering what picks and wrenches would you recommend me making for my set. and for some reason like every other thing in my house they are becoming magnetic.(clues on how to fix this)

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When i started making the picks the first one was the diamond scratched out the template with my leather awl on my Swiss army knife, then ground out the rough shape, quickly fallowed by a liberal use of a triangle file.

The next one was the "gem"(correct me on that) used some "tacky glue" to sick the template on and it worked moderately well the ink would wash out of the paper and in the end wasn't great.

The Bogota rake applied a lesser amount of tacky glue then a coat of old nail polish the paper fell off and ended up stuck to the top of the grinder i was using.I think it came out alright.

The tension wrenches (bottom of the key way) were made from the same piece of steel strip from the sink cleaner dremeled in half, then heated to red hot and bent, and left to cool.and filed up. the smaller of the two is barley less than a .1 inch and the larger one is .115ish inches in width all the tools are about .03 inches thick. The top of the key way wrench was made by heating till red hot and folding over and hammered till about .066 inches thick and bent to shape , then filled and ground to proper shape with a final thickness of around .051 inches.

my caliper is broken when it feels like it and so the measurements may not be precise due to a broken gear but it returned to 0 every other time so... its a starrett No.120a-6 if any one has a gear for it. (PT99410 anti-backlash gear) the gear in question

[mickysickz]

Check out longislandindicator.com for replacement parts for your caliper. We use them all the time for repairs of mics and indicators at work. If they dont have it on their website give them a call and they will put you in the right direction. Sorry I dont have any advice on the picks(im new to this also) but as a machinist I deal with precision tools all day long.

[Gamemister1]

Actually that's where i got the part number and its a $50 part the size of my thumbnail that after spending on locks recommended by bosnianbill from YouTube in the ep. (185) Improve Your Lock Picking Skills (for Beginners) recommends, lack the $100 to get the caliper fixed at long island shop. added it to the post hoping that some one had a cheaper alternative.

[kwoswalt99-]

They look better than my first try out of sheet metal and paper clips, I think I'd get a pass though I was only 9. Your gem and diamond look pretty good. I would make the ends of the bottom of the keyway wrenches a little shorter, and maybe put a twist in the top of the keyway wrench to make it more comfortable and give better feel. Your bogota looks like it might have gotten a bit thin on the shaft. I like that sink cleaner for pick material, it works pretty good for me, and I can heat treat it a little bit. I got the sink cleaner idea from Bosnianbill as well.