by Raymond » 28 Jun 2007 22:57
I believe you are wasting your time with this exact idea. It just will not work on a regular basis. If you got it to work on one lock you were just lucky. But, they say "Better lucky than talented" What will happen over and over is that one or more of the long pins will bind immediately and one or more of the short pins will not. With the deep cuts and different locks you stand a much greater chance of getting your key stuck in the lock.
I remember an aid to impressioning a key for automotive locks where the base of the key was solid, normal brass and the part of the key that contacted the pins or wafers was made of very soft foil. By carefully inserting the key, applying turning pressure and rocking the key, the soft foil would collapse until it reached the opening height. When the lock turned, you removed your sample and duplicated it for a working key. The foil tended to jam the key in the lock more often than it worked correctly.
Just practice classic picking until mastered and you will be much better off.
Nothing is foolproof to a talented fool. Wisdom is not just in determining how to do something, but also includes determining whether it should be done at all.
