Homemade pocket pick set!!! 2

[atrix]

hi all
it my another picks















i use a spring steel for make this picks

[Blink]

Let me be the first to say wow, those look great! One thing I'll ad, just incase you haven't done it yet, is go over the ends of the picks with wet & dry paper, it'll make em nice and shiny, and make them glide extremely smooth over the pins, it's like magic.

Keep up the good work!

Also, where did you get the spring steel, and did it come in strips, or did you cut it into the strips?

Blink

[atrix]

hi all
for Blink


this pis of spring steel is from


i found this picture hier in forum

[undeadspacehippie]

Is that a drain snake?

[pinsetter]

answering for atrix:

yes, that is indeed a drain snake! I've heard they are very good for pick material, but have never tried it myself.

[Mr. Lock Pick]

wow nice picks you seem to have put alot of hard work into them

[conker]

again, very nice

[raimundo]

I see that I am not the only one who makes the dimple pin pick that looks like a hook with a twist and bevel to get under the pin and pull it up on the bevel.

[cymap]

Very nice job you have done there. Forgive my niavity but what is the black grip made from and how have toy attatched it. Thanks

[undeadspacehippie]

Very nice job you have done there. Forgive my niavity but what is the black grip made from and how have toy attatched it. Thanks

Looks like heat shrink tubing to me, you can get it in a variety of colors for those who wish to colour co-ordinate their picks and thier wardrobe! -

TO the orginal post author - thanks for the idea - I have people keeping their eye out for drain snakes that are flat - most of the ones I have seen are cylindrical - After reading this post I went to the "Dollar" store (everything for 1$) to see what they had - only cylinders. Questions: Does the material need to be thinned out? Is it hard to cut?

[atrix]

hi all
for handles i use this:
http://www.brownbear.ru/upload/1_111961 ... brik-b.jpg
on Russian this is called kembrik , on English it seems shrink tubing

the thickness of strip is 0.8 mm , to decrease the thickness is unnecessary
it is good to cut material by the small needle files
I use only needle file and emery paper for make picks, this good because material not is heated and it does not lose its property
FOR raimundo

Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 9:44 pm Post subject: dimple pin pick

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I see that I am not the only one who makes the dimple pin pick that looks like a hook with a twist and bevel to get under the pin and pull it up on the bevel

my English thus far even poor and not all I can translate
about what precisely Pick you ask (dimple pin pick )
show me please

[cL4y]

I see,well im very interested in what ur using,drain snake sounds like an exellent idea,but could you tell me what you used to gte the shape? a dremel? or a bench grinder? or something different?

[jgardhouse]

Elecrtrical shrink wrap represent!

Awesome job man, love to see stuff like that. Keep up the good work!

J

[LockNewbie21]

I love heat shrink its os simple but the best great picks man, whats to one that looks like a hook but slightly angled you did a great close up, what would you use that on?


Andy

[mcleod28990]

nice set of picks which 1 do u find most useful? and which was hardest to make