Well the hand-pick set is worth just buying - Southord sell them cheap enough.
You can make an overlifter for lever locks by bending a wire to a "J" shape - this is known as a "J-wire" ... unsuprisingly. This is inserted like the lever lifter, but is turned, and will lift all the levers at once. Tension is applied seperately by using a tension wire. I will update my guide later with a photo of a homemade overlifter, it's silly that I didn't think of doing it in the first place.
Shrub made a decent guide to make an electric pickgun.
Plug spinner - you can get away with using an elastic band with a tension wrench. You turn the plug to 340 degrees, or something similar. Hold the wrench in place, and stretch the band, let go of the wrench and the band will make the wrench spin fast enough to turn the plug.
Shims - make your own out of Coke cans, guide also on this site - thanks goes to 'unbreakable' for putting it togther.
You can pick tubular locks pin-by-pin, using a tension wrench, and a pick to depress the pins... once turned 12 degrees the pins will settle into the next chambers, and you will need to repick several times to fully unlock. I have some ideas to make this better and will post my results when done.
Wafers? Well it's worth just picking with handpicks if you're doing it for a hobby.
Warded locks? for padlocks use wires.. a Video will be added to LSA as soon as Zeke puts it up, showing a way to open them with a bicycle spoke. For mortice warded locks read Capt.Dunc's guide stickied in the Locks section.
For curtained locks, should you invest the time, you can use 1 piece of wire to turn the curtain, and 1 to lift the levers.
Well if you don't want to use a bench grinder you could buy a good Dremel tool - this is dangerous as well, but tamer than a grinder. make sure you wear eye protection, use a vice whilst working etc...
What Shrub said was that although such things are a risk, the dangers can be made minimal by implementing sufficient safety measures on your part. Failure to do so will perhaps lead to you getting more intimate with a grinding wheel
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Likely there's more, but I'm too tired to think of them.
Hope this helps.
