Might Quit

[cbushee]

I can open a padlock with spool pins in about 2 seconds and many other locks are just really easy. I don't think I'll buy a real set of picks, I'm using a bobby pin and a scrap of metal for tension wrench. It's just really easy to feel pins and pop them.

[unlisted]

Well, if you want the easy way out, quit than.

Just don't forget, you still have not picked everything, your just giving up once you find something you cannot open. viewtopic.php?f=8&t=45910

[unlisted]

To the OP, my response to your post was not meant to drive you away, it was more to "motivate" you to stay and keep picking.

[LocksmithArmy]

I can open a padlock with spool pins in about 2 seconds and many other locks are just really easy. I don't think I'll buy a real set of picks, I'm using a bobby pin and a scrap of metal for tension wrench. It's just really easy to feel pins and pop them.

why would you quit because you can defeat simple locks... Its like quitting on the first level of a video game because you too good or quitting after the first game of a football seasone because you beat the crap out of the other team.

If your in this for the hobby than simply get tougher locks. I would suggest getting a real pickset but if the challange of bobby pins is what turns you on than go for it. The exciting part is the challange, feeling that hard or impossible (up till that point) lock pop open in your hands, as that tensor rotates effortlessly on a lock you thought you could never open. The excitment is from the challange and if you are not being challanged than step up until you are... I bet there are locks that will challange you, and if not you would be quite impressive.

keep up the good work

[thelockpickkid]

I know how you feel, I sometimes want to quit when a lock defeats me, today I am working on an Abus 65/40, not really a hard lock, I have picked them before, but it makes me feel stupid that I can't pick it. I just keep trying and trying and it always opens, don't quit this hobby so soon, you practically just started. Do what I do, just take a rest, get some more locks and just keep fricken going, they don't make a lock that can't be opened, they just take time. Don't give up. If you ever need anything just ask any of the members here, or P.M. me, I am here to help just as everybody else is.

[Eyes_Only]

Don't give up, especially not so early on in this hobby. Even the most experienced members of this site have trouble picking even the simplest locks sometimes, but thats the kinda challenge that drives us.

In the past two years working as a locksmith I had to focus 70 to 90% of my efforts and attention on decoding and making keys for a variety of vehicles and other dumb little wafer locks. Recently when I sat down to pick up where I left off I realized that I suck at picking now. I haven't even had any real chance to try out JK's Medecoder, and I've had that thing for like a year and a half now. Imagine what a bummer that was.

Barry Wells in one of his recent blogs mentioned his picking skills were a bit off lately, and this is the guy that founded ToooL and was nicknamed Barry "The Key" Wells and has been picking locks for years.

And sometimes the smallest, crappiest, cheapest most worthless locks will give you the most difficulty. Mail box locks to that to me quite often.