Eddie's Iron - Lockpicking book

[mcm757207]

Has anyone read this? The description from amazon is pretty intriguing.

"Eddie the Wire thought he'd written all he could about lock picking and the like, and then he came across some old mimeographed pages by the man who made the tools for Houdini. Eddie was again inspired and came up with some magic of his own. Eddie's Iron is truly new and revolutionary, so different in its concept that it was kept under wraps while the book was being produced. Follow Eddie's advice and make your own superior Eddie's Iron now - if locks interest you or picking a lock presents a challenge that you can't resist, then this book's for you! For Information Purposes only."

I suspect it's nothing exciting, but I am pretty curious. Has anyone read this book? What's the 'new and revolutionary' method it's about?

[dougfarre]

Who is Eddie the Wire?

[mcm757207]

He's written a few other books and I'm also pretty sure that I've seen articles by him in some safe and vault publications... but I could be wrong.

[Eyes_Only]

I wouldn't put much faith in anything thats carried and sold by companies like Paladin-Press. More than likely you'll find similar, if not better information on this site for free.

Those kind of books were a great lifeline in the past for people like us but now we have sites like this on the net we can turn to for more dependable information.

[pickmonger]

There are a number of posts about it here but with search broken its hard to find stuff.

The big secret is a form of curved picks, something like Falles curved picks. Not really a secret is it ?

I have the book and really enjoyed reading it. In fairness a lot of people consider the book crap and a waste of money.

Eddie's iron is similar to John Falle's curved lockpicks. They are somewhat different in design. Most feel the differences are insignificant.

The book may help you to better understand the physics behind using a pick with a curved bottom. The book also helps some people understand how to fine tune the curved pick for better acuracy.

Sadly for the most part, anyone who is able to understand the book and take advantage of what it explains, would already have that knowlege.

[scampdog]

I started the topic about this book,and in my point of view,it is a sheer waste of your money,the tool is nothing more than a cheap copy of a falle style pick with a CUTE twist in the handle(a la raimero). Buy a good set of picks and get you're moneysworth.

[maintenanceguy]

Don't knock Paladin Press.

At one time that's all there was. For those of you who remember the world before the internet, Paladin press is where lots of us learned to pick locks. The books were crude, not much fancier than a few photocopied pages stapled in the middle but there was no other place to find this stuff and we cherished our stapled pages. I've still got a couple of lock picking books and a safe manipulation book around here somewhere from the early 80's.

[linty]

coworker has this book and i wouldn't bother. most of the free guides you've already read are much more useful.

[patrick181]

Have you ever read Houdini's 'Right way to do wrong'? its an interesting read its from 1906 lol but a good book

[greyman]

Paladin Press, huh?