jegues wrote:Do you need a certain curve or shape for your "pick" in order for it to work on masterlocks and padlocks and such, or can it just be like an straight end of an allen wrench? if so which picks design do you find the most common? Also tubular locks (bike locks etc...) can some of these be picked with a ballpoint pen? If so how? Any other way to pick tubular locks without using a tubular pick? Last question, is it possible to buy bump keys areadly made or is that like illegal therefore they only sell blank keys and leave it to you to deal with that?
Any comments or suggestions, preferably answers including any of the above please feel free to post, thank you for your time.
You can technically use anything, but with the straight end of an allen wrench you're going to have to push on all the pins in front of the pin you want to manipulate...this is bad. Picks generally all are straight with rising bits on the end, so that you can manipulate single pins.
Hook is probably the most generic, but snake and half diamond are also very popular/common.
Some can, yes, but for the most part the tubular pick is the best thing you can use, and will be much more effective than anything else I can think of.
Yes you can buy bumpkeys, but you're better off just going and buying a lock that comes with 2 of those keys and making your own as it will likely a) be cheaper b) give you something to bump with that new key.
