how long

by **fhdfhfgh** » 23 Sep 2005 19:40

was it till you picked yourfirst lock? what's the usual

by **freakshow** » 23 Sep 2005 19:56

For me, my first lock took me nearly 2 hours, partly because I had crap for tools, and because I didn't know how. Of course, after you pick your first, you just get faster. (PS: this should probably be moved to general chatter)

by **digital_blue** » 23 Sep 2005 19:59

26 years.

by **ThE_MasteR** » 24 Sep 2005 10:10

About a week or so.

I was at work, and this guy was picking a Masterlock No.1 and when he picked it, my mouth droped. I said in my head, he's a human, i'm a human also, so I can do it. The same day I grabbed a paperclip and a bobby pin and made myself a pick and a tension wrench and I started picking it. After about a week, I was at work on lunch, and I picked it. OMG it felt so good lolll

by **fhdfhfgh** » 24 Sep 2005 10:32

I'm still just a beginner, I've picked a few locks but sometimes I get them in seconds and sometimes not at all, don't quite have the technique yet I guess, they were probably just lucky atempts

by **SFGOON** » 24 Sep 2005 10:37

I was 16 and determined to be a spy, and spys pick locks on adaily bass, right? I paid 60$ for a 15 piece set and 30$ for a book by Steve Hampton and went to work. I took me roughly two weeks to rake open my mum's front door.

What I wouldn't have given for this site back then....

by **specialist** » 24 Sep 2005 11:07

Took me about 10 seconds using my pickgun, and the only locks I had (cheap Chinese knock-offs). After I started using manuel tools, it took about 15-20 minutes for Master #3's. As your technique develops, you get much faster.

by **amc31b** » 27 Sep 2005 14:32

Wow, now i feel better. not to make you guys feel bad or anything.

using online research and southord's cheap little 5 peice set, it took me 2 hours to pick my "design house" dead bolt on the shed out back!
~have good pickings~

by **digital_blue** » 27 Sep 2005 15:21

You know, it's funny that even after the OP was banned, his thread lives on. :lol:

db

by **skold** » 27 Sep 2005 16:16

If only i could remember

I have picked too many locks to remember my first, but i think it was a papaiz padlock woth all 5 spools, must of took me a while though

by **jamesphilhulk2** » 27 Sep 2005 17:55

my fist lock was a 5-pin pin tumbler lock it had the word ROSS on it and my teacher gave me a small hook and crappy tension wrench so i made my own anyway it took me about 10 mins

by **quickpicks** » 27 Sep 2005 19:32

I first got interestd in lockpicking about 2 years ago. I gave up for about a year but I began to focus on picking a lot more and I popped my first lock
about a month after I joined this forum.

by **n2oah** » 27 Sep 2005 19:34

digital_blue wrote:You know, it's funny that even after the OP was banned, his thread lives on.

db

Tell us of this legend...?

by **How** » 9 Oct 2005 17:31

Don't exactly recall. I tried for weeks, then gave up. A couple months later I bought an instructional book on picking locks and was picking in a couple of days after that. The same locks that took me so long to learn on at first, I had 3 kwiksets on a board in my living room, I was picking all 3 during commercials of TV shows, in anywhere from 9 seconds to 5 minutes. I got a little big headed when I could pick them all under 1 minute. Then I learned to humble myself :oops:

when a friend, eventually my locksmith teacher, rekeyed them for me

but I persevered

by **Wade** » 15 Oct 2005 21:10

I worked on the kwikset in my house for about a month until I got it once.It took about two more months before i picked it again. After that I could consistently pick it in under 5 minutes. I used grinded down nails for the pick and a bent nail with a ground down tip for my tension wrench.
-yeah baby

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