lockpicking progression-- what next?

[Couloirman]

I can easily pick common door locks like quicksets, and schlage, and just this week finally 'mastered' an American 5200 (consistently picking it in under a minute). Whats next? Got any good recommendations as to where to go from here? It would be nice to have an idea of some more difficult, yet relatively common locks to work towards. I am debating if I am ready to try out a medeco, but am pretty intimidated to be honest. Suggestions on high security door, and padlocks would be greatly appreciated. Nothing too obscure though-- I want to learn to pick things that I might actually see in the real world here in the USA, and preferably can pick with my standard wallet Bogota pick set.

Thanks for any hel you can give!

[catsoup]

Medeco is a good direction to go, though I would focus on spp standard tumblers with different kinds of security pins - more locks like the american 5200. I think it is more about breadth than complexity in this situation, a lot of locks that are of the same quality have their own eccentricities that are worth learning.

[Couloirman]

Thanks! Any specific recommendations of some of your favorites?

[catsoup]

Well the American locks are good, I personally like to practice on locks with either fancy warding or small keyways. If you can get a cylinder that's easy to rekey, Its good to practice locks that are keyed with very tall stacks and very short stacks next to each other, it's something you will run into in the wild, and can be a pain, even on a standard tumbler lock.

As far as specific locks go, I'd just try to get my hands on locks that have specific tricks to them, like the schlage everest, or corbin emhart (like medeco) Im sure other people have run into a much wider variety of interesting locks than I.

[Squelchtone]

I'd like to recommend Arrow 6 pin mortise cylinder, BEST 7 pin SFIC , Master No.532 padlock, Abus No.41 or 55/50 padlocks, Corbin or Russwin mortise cylinders, Sargent LA keyway cylinders.

ebay is a great place to pick this stuff up for cheap.