I find this thread and many of the comments about wafer locks most interesting.
As with pin tumbler locks, wafer locks come in many variations and as such have different levels of ease or difficulty for picking.
Find a 3 pin lock and see how long it takes you to open. now find a 10 pin cruciform ( 2 rows of pin stacks set 90 degrees apart) lock and see how your style of picking has to adapt, and how long it takes you to open the lock. And this is in no way the most complicated pin locks available.
Many common found wafer locks around are usually on low security items, such as desks and other furniture, clothes lockers etc etc.
These locks ( some with as few as 3 wafers) are pretty easy to open. I wont even call it picking as almost anything half the size of the keyway, jiggled in the lock can open many.
Don't let this comparitive ease fool you though. Try picking a 10 wafer double sided wafer lock with this technique and you'll be there until your fingers bleed, . Try it with a 10 spacing, split wafer, 4 track laser lock and you'll be handing your picking tools to your great grand children before the lock opens.
some wafer locks require specialist picking tools designed purely for that type and brand of lock, and requires much skill gained from many hours of practice to master ( sound familiar? practice practice practice, just like pin locks).
I'm not going to post a *HOW TO* here on these more advanced wafer locks. I just felt it worth saying that, yes, as many of you have discovered some wafer locks are rediculously easy to overcome, but that does not go for all wafer locks.
