Home Made Picks...Are thay good?

[Wh0W4]

I made some lock picks and i need to know if there the right size..
All my picks are made out of coat hanger metal
lol im sorry if i posted a lot of (big) pics

This is the first pick i ever made, the handel is a old Italy pen i had...




These are the picks i use the most..


My Tension tool


my snapper pick...it works very nicely

[mrdan]

Well, I think the top one looks fine but the diamond and the rake look good at the tip and look a little fat as you get towards the handle. This might make it hard to get at the back pins and keep from messing with the front pins. might try filing the shafts down a bit. Otherwise pretty good for coat hangers.

[Wh0W4]

ok, Thanks alot.

[josh0094]

looks fairly good! looks like u could sand them a bit more tho.

[splister]

Their fairly good, but you might have trouble with restrictive locks.. You won't be able to reach the back pins. Like mrdan said, you might want to try grinding down the shaft.

[raimundo]

The pen handle pick looks good, but it still needs some sanding to maximize its potential, you cant' get good at picking if your pick is rough
the others as stated would need the shafts thined out a bit to help the pick tip stand above them.
I think you should find another material to put all your work into, the actual temper of coathanger is not so good. and they are more work to make I think. Buy a cheap flat steel plumbers snake at the bigbox store near you. or use sweeper bristle, wiper inserts, or buy the very reasonably priced feeler gauge foot longs, you can buy them by size at a machinests supply house. I suggest .025 as a good feeler gauge to start with.

[Wh0W4]

I cant feel what im doing to the pins in the lock with the pen handle...i know i tried and made a fairly good little pick set, but i thinks its time to buy a real set, but ill still keep making pick for fun. i think im going to buy the "seventeen piece lock pick set" from Southord...if anyone thinks of a another pick set i may need to get please post.

[Guitar_J]

Have you tried other materials? When I first got into it I made several from hack saw blades. They were more than suitable for learning, then I bought a SouthOrd set when I wanted to move up a little. Just be careful as they can sometimes be pretty brittle.

[Wrenchman]

Hi Wh0W4, welcome to Lockpicking!

I cant feel what im doing, I thinks its time to buy a real set

Save the money, what you need is practise!

You need to go to this LINK to learn the feel!



Wrenchman

[Wh0W4]

Thanks Wrenchman, i found that post two day ago and i been practicing ever since

I tried hack saw blades once and i almost cut my finger off lol, because i don't have a grinding wheel, the way i make my lock pick is with a hammer a file and some sand paper...

[josh0094]

woh that tension wrench is one of the coolist ones ive ever seen. GOOD JOB!

[UWSDWF]

are they good?... don't know tell me how they work and i'll tell you if their good... beyond they seem to need some polishing

[Wh0W4]

Thanks josh0094 i made the tension wrench because iam left handed and it makes it more ez for me to pick locks

I made a new hook pick yesterday and it works really well on door locks but i like to use the diamond on pad locks and master locks., as for the polishing i was going too, but the picks get alot of wear and tear in the lock so i skip the polishing. I think my picks are pretty good so iam not going to buy a lock pick set no more.