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HPC Computer Gen. Picks Revisited...

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.

Moshe Tavor

Postby Peter Martin » 25 Nov 2006 15:28

Moshe Tavor--to whom Mr. Peyronnet credits the HPC picks--seems to be an interesting person, first associated with the Israeli secret service. I googled his name and found this interesting blurb of biography, although nothing of his pick development was mentioned.

http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/ ... ?p=1379031
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Tavor's profile picks

Postby Peter Martin » 25 Nov 2006 15:33

http://www.historama.com/onlinearticles ... cker2.html

This link about Mr. Moshe Tavor has a little more information pertaining to his profile picks.
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HPC website is correct size.

Postby Peter Martin » 28 Nov 2006 11:36

I printed the template from Zeke79's site (Thank You!), and then reduced them 70%.

I then compared the reduced template page to the profiles on HPC's website. The profiles on HPC's site (when printed) are the same size as the 70% reduced size.

So printing the profiles from HPC's website will give you the proper (reduced) size picks!

Here's the link...

http://www.hpcworld.com/Picks/p_comp1.htm

Cut and Grind!
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Postby Genesis » 30 Nov 2006 1:57

so does that mean the images on the hpc site are 1:1? Sorry for the stupid post but its late and the thing about 70% is kinda confusing me. Thanks
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Re: HPC Computer Gen. Picks Revisited...

Postby melvin2001 » 30 Nov 2006 2:02

Gurdjieff wrote:I have obtained a March 2005 copy of Keynotes and in it Jacques Peyronnet explains the origins of the computer picks. He says that in the late sixties an Israeli lock picker named Moshe Tavor allowed him to photocopy a set of "waves" that summarized most combinations in 5 pin cylinders. Jacques made himself a set that worked very well. Ten years later Nick Gartner (the founder of LaGard) took a photocopy of Jacques set for his own use. To Jacques surprise, a replica of his set of picks now known as the Computer Picks showed up in the HPC catalog. The kicker is that they were exactly the same as the ones Moshe made originally (without a computer) but that they were 30% too large. Jacques recommends reducing to 70% a photocopy of the HPC picks and making your own, which will work much better. Jacques also sells his own set of picks, but I suppose this information is available only in the restricted section. As an aside, when I first opened the box on my set of Computer Picks my (and I think everyone else) first reaction was that that are huge.



i think thats what he was referring to. if you print the pictures from the HPC website they will be reduced by 30% (70% of the real HPC pick size). which according to moshe is supposed to be better.
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