Charlie511 Pickset Thread

[Charlie511]

this is my second try to make the cutways, its an FAB lock:

[scorpiac]

Very nice! Cuts look really clean and straight.

[raimundo]

looking at the cutaway, appears to confirm for this lock that euro cylinders are suceptable to the comb pick. Two factors could make it difficult, the thinner keyways and the warding may be a factor, but if you think about it, a comb pick inserted while a probe holds all the pins up puts the teeth of the comb into the wide open areas of the plug drillings, where there are no wards, so the only part of the comb pick that has to negociate the warding is the shaft betweent the combteeth, this if as thin as the comb pick recently shown on barrys blackbag could easily be manuvered left and right while raising upward through some difficult wards, remember its as easy as working a piano wire upwards, since the pins are held up with the probe, and the wards only exist between the drillings, There is plenty of room to compress the springs, and fit the top and bottom pins into the cylinder shell, above the plug.
Euro locks do have heavier springs, so it may be necessary to support the comb pick with the probe beneath it to prevent any bending while pushing up the combined strength of the five springs.

[charlies]

your picks are really cool

we got the same names and my grandma is from the Czech Republic

[josh0094]

wow ill have to get on making some really nice picks like theese. soon as i get back from the store with more butain

[lockeymoto]

Great job, nice straight lines.
how does it pick?

[muskratt]

looking at the cutaway, appears to confirm for this lock that euro cylinders are suceptable to the comb pick. Two factors could make it difficult, the thinner keyways and the warding may be a factor, but if you think about it, a comb pick inserted while a probe holds all the pins up puts the teeth of the comb into the wide open areas of the plug drillings, where there are no wards, so the only part of the comb pick that has to negociate the warding is the shaft betweent the combteeth, this if as thin as the comb pick recently shown on barrys blackbag could easily be manuvered left and right while raising upward through some difficult wards, remember its as easy as working a piano wire upwards, since the pins are held up with the probe, and the wards only exist between the drillings, There is plenty of room to compress the springs, and fit the top and bottom pins into the cylinder shell, above the plug.
Euro locks do have heavier springs, so it may be necessary to support the comb pick with the probe beneath it to prevent any bending while pushing up the combined strength of the five springs.

gotta love barry's blackbag.