broken picks

[n00bking]

well no, the back door lock, it is fine. see, I was picking the lock and I was like...well it is hard to explain, but simply put the pick didn't feel right, I looked at the pick after I pulled it out, and it was like really badly bent, I just broke the pick head off right then and there as to prevent it from falling somehwere or w/e. but the lock is fine.

[Squelchtone]

ya, the jag rake pick, i broke on the first day that I got it, and it broken clean off. It was my first day so I am not surprised. But my single sided pick, I was picking my back door lock for like the first time, and ya I was kinda screwing up the tension because I had never done the lock before, other than that I was just picking padlocks that were easy.

I'll just get another single sided pick and a jar rake pick, and a single short sided pick, looks kinda cool.

dude,
you gotta start calling the picks by the correct names or we won't know what you're talking about. I've never heard of a single short sided pick or a jag rake pick, can you please link us to some pics of the picks?

thanks,
Squelchtone

[Squelchtone]

ok... after some poking around our favorite lock picking supply websites
I did find lockpicks.com does use the term Jag in several of their rakes.

Here are names used by other pick manufacturers and distributors:

LockPicks.com calls it Jag Snake Pick:
http://www.lockpicks.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=227

Peterson calls it a Triple Rake:
http://peterson-international.com/individualpicks-detailed.htm#tripple%20rake

Southord calls is an S rake:
http://www.southord.com/catalog.asp?cat=trad_std

LockPickshop.com calls it an S rake:
http://www.lockpickshop.com/SP-11.html

Matt Blaze had this to say on his awesome site Crypto.com:
http://www.crypto.com/photos/misc/picks/

and if you're just starting out with lockpicking, read his paper here:
http://www.crypto.com/papers/notes/picking/


that was fun, anyone care to add more manufacturers naming conventions?
Squelchtone

[n00bking]

http://www.lockpicks.com/index.asp?Page ... tegory=233

[hellbent1979]

people learning should invest in a feather touch tension wrench, it will save from alot of broken picks and locks