Schlage Door Locks

[Tranquil]

I was at Home Depot picking the locks in their door lock section and i was on a roll until i encountered the Schlage section and found that their locks are very strange and hard to insert a pick into. does anyone have any pointers on a newbie trying to pick them?

[UWSDWF]

yeah pick locks that are yours and yours alone

[Tranquil]

ok that was an answere

[Tranquil]

come on really though they were on display to be tried out and so i tried them.

[Squelchtone]

I was at Home Depot picking the locks in their door lock section and i was on a roll until i encountered the Schlage section and found that their locks are very strange and hard to insert a pick into. does anyone have any pointers on a newbie trying to pick them?

yes, I have advice. Before you get thrown out of the store and make all of us look like punk kids, stop picking their Defiant and Kwikset and Schlage and Balwdin lockboards and buy a couple locks to take home with you and pick at home. I'm surprised no one from the store kicked you out for messing around with the displays.

This brings me to the usual speech we give all new users, which includes the following rule you should live by:

Don't pick locks that are not yours, and don't pick locks that are in use by you or anyone. When learning how to pick, there is a good chance that you will turn something the wrong way, or stick a pick in the wrong place and mess up the lock. If it's not your lock amd you break it, someone will be mad, or if it is your house lock on your front door, now you either can't lock your door when you leave or, the lock is broken in the locked position and you can't open it with a key.

Otherwise, I can understand your zeal, I also want to open every lock I walk by, but I learned to resist and instead I buy a new lock or two every week to keep me busy in my workshop at home.

here are some very useful links with forum rules, how to search for stuff, etc etc.

Rules and tips:
http://www.lockpicking101.com/viewtopic.php?t=10528

digital blue's Beginner’s Lockpicking Exercise:
http://www.lockpicking101.com/viewtopic.php?t=10677


btw.. on average you will find that Schlage are tougher than Kwikset and much harder than Defiant, but with enough practice you will open them. what kind of pick are you using to open locks right now?

welcome to the forum,
Squelchtone

TOOOL Boston

[Deathadder]

ok, first, if they find you in their shop with lockpicks, you will probably be hit with "carrying burglary tools with intent", which isn't too pretty. On this forum, we try to be good people, and will NOT tolerate picking locks to which you don't own. Please try to refrain from doing this, if you want to pick some locks, just buy a couple from the shop, shouldn't cost you that much, and you will get to take them home and try em out for a little longer. As for your question, some schlages tend to have security pins, and their keyways vary from others, try to insert the pick at the top of the keyway instead of the bottom, to give you more room.

Again, don't pick locks you either rely on, or don't own. Either case is a really bad idea.

[Tranquil]

the only pick i haven't been able to use successfully is the lifter but i ordered a cutaway lock last week and its supposed to be here in a couple of days. I've been picking for about a week now with random things in my apartment and like i said at Home Depot (I'll refrain from mentioning that in the future if you like) but the Schlage was the only lock i couldn't get open. i can see by the way why you would say i shouldn't pick their display locks but they were there and have been conquered already the thus are useless, so i guess I'll forget about them for now, so no more display locks. (kinda makes you wonder what they do with the displays when they are done with them. I'll not bother you with my pestering of local store owners anymore.

[c123]

The only reason to pick a lock that you don't own is that the owner is PAYING you to pick it for them. Looking for some locks to practice on? Keep an eye out for construction sites that are remodeling. Most times they will give you the old locks and other door hardware. After you get your own locks to work with, dump all the pins and re-pin with only 2 pins. Get the feel for those 2 pins and add 2 more. then start doing locks with deep cuts up front and shallow cuts in the back. Learn how to pick a lock by feeling it. Try to remember what it felt like just before it picked. GOOD LUCK!

oh yeah.... get a job at a lockshop

[melvin2001]

tranquil you seem to be missing the point completely. By picking the display boards at a store and because (obviously) they are not yours and you dont have explicit permission to do so, you are making this community look bad. honestly picking a lock that doesn't belong to you is completely idiotic as you can severely damage it and not only will you have a bad name, but the entire community will get a bad name. if you value at all what this website and the people that contribute to it stand for, then stop being an idiot.

P.S. UWSDWF's answer was indeed the correct one.

[Tygart]

Tranquil the members are not saying that to be rude and this is not a secret site were we don't talk about lock picking.

Its for the reasons that you don't kill your or anyone else's lock and you don't get your butt thrown in jail.