King/queen pick techniques

[blade_runner]

After reading around on the forums, I've seen references to king and queen picks as well as other specialty rakes. I was wondering, do these picks have any special techniques associated with them? I've searched the past posts, but I haven't found any information directly related to the use of these picks.

[macaba]

You effectively use them as a key, with a tension wrench. This will set alot of the pins, and you pick the rest with a hook or diamond.

[digital_blue]

I find my king/queen picks quite useful for scratching the middle of my back. Other than that, they occupy a space in my pick case.

db

[dwkbb]

I have found the King/Queen picks very effective. They are acutally four different picks, because you can use both sides of each. The technique that works is largely jiggling/raking.

[dwkbb]

Check out this thread.

viewtopic.php?t=2387&highlight=sak

[sivlogkart]

DB: I thought I was the only one that did that.

Most fancy picks are very good indeed for a small number of locks. An extreme example of a fancy pick is the key, which, if you are lucky, comes with the lock.

[blade_runner]

Cool, thanks for the help. I'd thought some combination of rocking and raking would work, but then I've never had too much success with rakes. I think I'll make a set to play around with though since they seem pretty effective.

d0ded0: "Keys, we don't need no stinkin' keys."

[sivlogkart]

Lockpickers often forget the option of a key though!

[blade_runner]

Very true. But we also forget that we can bypass too. Given a situation where I have to get into something, any option's open.

[skold]

There is always a way.