When it comes down to it there is nothing better than manual tools for your Lock pick Set, whether they be retail, homebrew, macgyver style. DIY'ers look here.
macaba thanx for posting the pic the image you posted works great for a to scale template just print it out cut out the shapes and glue them to the strips of metal your useing worked for me
Lock picking hobbyist turned licensed locksmith thanks in part to lp101.com
macaba: AutoCAD is not over rated. It is good stuff. But like everything in this world you use the best tool for the job. And AutoCADs place in life is far from a proto typing tool. Mind you when you design something in it and then send it to a mill or something it can make a good prototyping tool Mind you its been a few years since I have used it. Good ol' dos days
Autocad is good for 2D and thats about it. For 3D solids Pro/E and Solidworks are nice, 3D surfaces unigraphics or catia are good. IDEAS fits in there too.
Course I do analysis and use ABAQUS, ANSYS, and NASTRAN...I dont play around with 3d modeling toys anymore, haha.
I thought of a method that might work to include a tension wrench on your jackknife. First magnetize a tension wrench then cut a small slot large enough to fit the tension wrench through the top left hand side of the jacknife. Just stick the tension wrench through the small slot and the magnetism should hold the wrench to the body of the jk. Also good work on the design, what thickness of metal did you make the U handle of the jacknife?
Using a magnetized tension wrench would probably suck when you're trying to pick a lock. Of course, I suppose it depends what the pins/cylinder/shell were made out of.
Why not try a small neodymium magnet in the knife somewhere that holds the tension wrench in. I can see how it may be a pain, unless the body is made of aluminum or titanium (that would be sweet either way).
Chucklz Why not try a small neodymium magnet in the knife somewhere that holds the tension wrench in
Good idea ! i have one from a old couputer hard drive (real strong!) but it's too large i will just buy a smaller "rare earth magnet" that will work great
also I thank it is great that we now have a "buy sell trade" thread but my fear is the legal aspect of selling a lockpick in the mail from this forum i think it is a great idea i just do not want to get into trouble with the law I love my family and do not want to take a risk
Lock picking hobbyist turned licensed locksmith thanks in part to lp101.com
What if you are selling picks for your teeth that just so happen to look like lock picks? Hey, we all have some hard to reach areas that naturally require computer generated picks.
Seriously, is ther a way you could either sell them as something else or do it so they arent quite finished or something. Got to be some kind of loophole to eliminate your legal responsibility.
the image you posted works great for a to scale template just print it out cut out the shapes and glue them to the strips of metal your useing worked for me
Mind you its been a few years since I have used it. Good ol' dos days 