What did you pick today?

[Mudman]

Nice work G-Lock, that key has some cool bitting.

[GWiens2001]

While waiting for lunch to cook in the microwave, picked a few locks I keep in the lunch bag...



Gordon

[dhk42]

Those aluminum body locks feel funny when you pick them. Had one left in an auction car a couple days ago, but no keys.

Never seen a Home Depot with American padlocks. Interesting.

Gordon

The HD website even lists a couple of them as Master, which I know now owns American but still found it strange. The A40 and A50 definitely feel a bit different from the 5200s I'm used to. Or maybe it's in my head.

There seem to be a bunch of Americans classified as Skilcraft on the HD website, which is even weirder:
http://www.homedepot.com/s/Skilcraft%2520padlock

How did you figure out which store carried them, though? The only option I get is to have it shipped free to a local store.

David

[Eazy123]

While waiting for lunch to cook in the microwave, picked a few locks I keep in the lunch bag...



Gordon

lol I pick locks at work on lunch too! Nice pick on the Best especially!

[Eazy123]

Those aluminum body locks feel funny when you pick them. Had one left in an auction car a couple days ago, but no keys.

Never seen a Home Depot with American padlocks. Interesting.

Gordon

The HD website even lists a couple of them as Master, which I know now owns American but still found it strange. The A40 and A50 definitely feel a bit different from the 5200s I'm used to. Or maybe it's in my head.

There seem to be a bunch of Americans classified as Skilcraft on the HD website, which is even weirder:
http://www.homedepot.com/s/Skilcraft%2520padlock

How did you figure out which store carried them, though? The only option I get is to have it shipped free to a local store.

David

I choose the lock I'm interested in, and it says "not sold in stores / check other stores". When you select check other stores it gives you a list of stores and shows quantities in stock at each. So while it could say not sold in stores it actually may be. When I check the Sklilcraft, however, it tells me they're online purchases only.

[Eazy123]

Gordon, you must have inspired me today - I managed to rake this cursed Best of mine open for the first time in months! Still not to control but I'll take it.

[GWiens2001]

Gordon, you must have inspired me today - I managed to rake this cursed Best of mine open for the first time in months! Still not to control but I'll take it.

Congrats, Easy!

Gordon

[OrMeanGene]

Had to spend some time at hospital with wife, so i packed light. Went with some of the titaliums for best bang for buck weight wise.

[OrMeanGene]

Got through these all again last night. Just trying to get a feel for my new picks. I need to get more locks. Lol, story of my life.

Gorgeous set of locks. Nice and shiny. Great work.

[Eazy123]

Had to spend some time at hospital with wife, so i packed light. Went with some of the titaliums for best bang for buck weight wise.

So this begs the question...do you guys sit in public picking locks?

[GWiens2001]

So this begs the question...do you guys sit in public picking locks?

Not normally. I use a break room that nobody else uses when I take lunch. Must be my personality that keeps them away.

Gordon

[OrMeanGene]

Had to spend some time at hospital with wife, so i packed light. Went with some of the titaliums for best bang for buck weight wise.

So this begs the question...do you guys sit in public picking locks?

No i tend to be secretive. Same as gordon mentioned, no one else around. We had a room. I dont like to deal with people, they tend to jump right to "why do you need to pick a lock.." So i can steal your Prius, leave me alone.

[G-lock]

Got this today. It was a very simple pick the binding order was 123456. First time ive had that happen to me. I didn't know that schlage mortise locks had all this drill protection either. Im sure its old news to most people here but i was impressed.

[adi_picker]

Illinois DUO!



Very happy to slay this one. Picked it up for the first time today, and picked on it straight for a couple of hours. I haven't done many wafer locks before so it took a little bit of time to get the precision required to stay on the wafers down, especially for the 4 centre wafers which are located in free space. Also required some patience with the mushroom wafers. Used a standard Peterson hook and a prybar. Really good challenge.

-adi_picker

[Eazy123]

Had to spend some time at hospital with wife, so i packed light. Went with some of the titaliums for best bang for buck weight wise.

So this begs the question...do you guys sit in public picking locks?

No i tend to be secretive. Same as gordon mentioned, no one else around. We had a room. I dont like to deal with people, they tend to jump right to "why do you need to pick a lock.." So i can steal your Prius, leave me alone.

LOL!!!

I've done it at work once before and a couple of people thought it was cool - got asked once to extract a broken key, I even got a request to fix a stuck zipper because "you're a locksmith, right?"

Unfortunately now if anything ever goes missing from work, they're going to look at me.