No Luck .. Please Help

[Fdot]

hey guys, i just recieved my southord 9 piece slimline set and i'v not opened one lock .. after having studied MIT guide to lockpicking, i still have not been a success in this craft. could anyone maybe help me? as in tell me some pointers? give me a link to a video tutorial? or anything else that would be useful ?

Many Thanks !

[Matt-the-rat]

Me too, i have just recieved my nine piece set and I have opened 9 locks, including an abus diskus, an abus bike lock and many other padlocks. I am having trouble with door locks though. These are the old yale and union type locks. Try practicsing on cheap padlocks, if you still cant open them, go for very cheap poundland (if you live in UK) locks.

[Marco]

Get yourself a deadbolt cylinder to practice on and follow digital_blue's guide. http://www.lockpicking101.com/viewtopic.php?t=10677
You start by taking out all pins except for one, and then keep adding more pins as you start to recognise the feeling of binding pins etc. It helped me a lot so you should give that a go.

[Fdot]

k thanks .. can you give me a uk link to the deadbolt cylinder practise device ?

[Fdot]

is it the normal locks you can get from a normal store .. or does it have to be a specialized practice lock you get from a site etc ?

[Eyes_Only]

A normal deadbolt lock you can buy at a hardware store is what you need and use the technique Marco suggested. Don't buy those special cutaway locks from online sources. Learning now to pick locks with visual help will do you no good. Plus I hear that the pins in some of the cutaway locks don't bind properly when applying tension.

[CVScam]

Fdot I saw your post about getting a slimline set. I didn't see where you live but if you are tring to pick locks that don't need slimline picks you might be making it harder on yourself. I live in the U.S and only have to use slimlines on a few locks.

[thubanpete]

If you don't mind laying out some cash, Southord makes a prepreped lock picking practice kit with locks that are already set up with 1 pin through 5 pin practice locks. You can find it at http://www.lockpickshop.com in "Locksmith Training" under the heading "Lock Picking School in a Box" (and no, these aren't cut away locks. They're actual fully intact and repined locks).

That's assuming you want to take the easy way out and don't want to try the above mentioned techniques covering the repining of your own practice locks....

-ThubanPete

[thubanpete]

If you don't mind laying out some cash, Southord makes a prepreped lock picking practice kit with locks that are already set up with 1 pin through 5 pin practice locks. You can find it at http://www.lockpickshop.com in "Locksmith Training" under the heading "Lock Picking School in a Box" (and no, these aren't cut away locks. They're actual fully intact and repined locks).

That's assuming you want to take the easy way out and don't want to try the above mentioned techniques covering the repining of your own practice locks....

-ThubanPete

[thubanpete]

Crud! Sorry 'bout the double post!

[Chucklz]

The SO picking school "pyramid learning" whatever is such an incredible ripoff. Just go buy a few cylinders and repin. Taking the lock apart will help you understand how the lock works.

[deXtroid101]

it's difficult to learn, just takes some time