screamdud wrote:Sorry guys. I thought that cut-away locks are good because u can see what is going on while u feel it so that when you pick a not cut-away lock, you know what is going on inside the lock. Sorry if that was bad advice, thats just what I had thought.
Well just for fun , I will agree with you
For all those that suggest cutaway locks are a bad idea:
Not everybody has the same visualization skills that you may posses.
A good ability to visualize something, in this case the inner workings of a lock ,
and your interaction with it, is essential to successful lockpicking.
A cutaway provides the visual aid that many people need to "learn" how their interaction with the lock affects the pins while picking.
Rather than the perceived opinion that this will lead to an inability to pick a "normal" lock , it enhances the persons chances of picking such a lock having spent some time using a cutaway.
You could attempt to learn many things without visual aid - the piano, typing skills, the guitar etc., etc.
And while learning to play , say, a piano it's not essential to look at the keyboard, it's helpful, and many people do so while learning.
While learning to type, it's also helpful to look at the keyboard at times, so you can map the keyboard.
Your brain learns where the keys are both by sight and by touch, one helping the other, so that in the end your brain can use one sense only.
Most people learn things by sight - when this ability is removed, it's harder for most people to learn as quickly - this is pure logic, and the reason we have sight!
A cutaway lock provides the means for people who cant visualize fully what is going on in a lock while they pick it.
They can see the result of their actions, this "completes the circut" as it where. Helping them understand in a visual way their progress as they learn to pick the lock.
Far from hindering their progress, as suggested it would help such people.
It would be foolish to suggest that someone who "looked" at the keyboard while learning to play the piano could never play without looking at it, as this would be the result if we where to apply the same logic.
Likewise, it would be impossible to find your way around your house in complete darkness, because you learned to find your way around the house with the aid of light in the first place !
Having learned to find your way around the house with the aid of light is exactly what gives you the ability to find your way around in the dark, without falling down the stairs!!!
People with good visualization skills, may find it hard to understand that some people do not possess this skill.
For these people it's more than helpful to use a cutaway.
Sure, you will eventually have to try a standard lock, but the brain will now have a very good picture of what is happening inside the lock.
Helping to overcome the main hurdle for many people new to lockpicking .
And while looking at videos of someone with a cutaway may be helpful, it lacks the tactile feedback, and the closeness of a cutaway, it's visual only.
The cutaway is both visual and tactile, when one is removed ( the visual element) the brain is now equipped to compensate for this.
That's my thesis
though my freind usually knows where there are some.. ill ask him when hes better.
