Another Peterson Customer

[Mutzy]

I just ordered a few things from their site. *Unashamedly adds to collection*


-City Lites
-Flat 5 tension tools
-Peterson Prybar
-Peterson Prybar lite

I seem to have issues with keeping track of my tension tools. Hopefully i'll keep hold of these ones. City Lites are for general purpose stuff. I might keep them with my work set, since my LN21 ones are staying with my hobby stuff.

Anyone else got these? I hear the prybar lite is one of the best tension tools around.

[Geek142]

Never had experience with the pry bar, the tension tools are nice though.

Peterson make some great quality stuff.

[Eyes_Only]

The Pry Bar is an awesome wrench. Very rigid and strong so you can get good feedback from the lock and stays in the keyway securely.

On some lock like on the older Kwiksets with a worn out keyway it may slip off and will not fit in a lock with a very small keyway like a Primus but it is still the first wrench I reach for 90% of the time. For other needs I use the Flat 5 wrenches which are equally good.

[Mutzy]

Sweet. We mainly have the 'C4' (kwikset) profile here for residential locks, so it's all good. Hopefully the wider tools will work wonders in the disc tumbler cylinders we have on some screen doors.

[dmux]

good choices there, I have both prybars myself and they are great, the prybar lite fits in most locks where many tension tool just dont seem to fit and they lock in because of the serrations.

[Squelchtone]

Yeah, I just spent $80 with them on Friday on some choice items.. it's amazing how quickly it adds up.

Cant wait to try out the quad-rake and the I already have and love the Wave pick, but got another one since I broke the tip off doing something that god never intended.


Squelchtone

[dmux]

the quad rake is a little rough but i did open up locks right out of the box with it, i like their rakes better with the textured handles, like the play and confort i have with them

[le.nutzman]

Yeah, I just spent $80 with them on Friday on some choice items.. it's amazing how quickly it adds up.

Cant wait to try out the quad-rake and the I already have and love the Wave pick, but got another one since I broke the tip off doing something that god never intended.


Squelchtone

I hate to have to ask this, but what was that pick doing that god never intended it to do Squelchy? Other than opening locks I mean.....lol!

To the OP, I have a large variety of Peterson tools and in some cases, everything that I've bought from them is almost equal to a G3/G4 set minus one or two items. I won't speak for anyone else who's posted feedback, but I will concur on two things.

First, the Peterson Pry Bar Lite is an exceptionally nice tension tool. I use it almost exclusively now (I don't have the flat 5 set so I can't compare). I like the size and the rigidness, it's comfortable to use and easy to misplace, so if you're not paying attention and set it down, it might grown legs and walk away.

Second, I prefer most of the Peterson picks with the textured handles as opposed to the plastic or rubber. For me, the textured handles are extremely comfortable to hold for extended picking sessions that span several locks.

Personally I think you would have gotten just a bit more bang for the buck getting Ken's set over the city lites, but it all depends on how much you're actually going to be using them. With Ken's set you get the same picks but you also get the Deep Cut Access picks, which may or may not help everyone, but hey, always better to have the right tools to do the right job rather than having the wrong tools and having to improvise. Just my opinion though.

See, ya'll talking about Peterson picks again, since starting this reply, i've already wracked up about $100 on the Peterson site that I really don't need to spend. Ya'll are horrible!!!!!

[MacGyver101]

Funny this thread should come up now... I have a few friends who are interested in getting into hobby picking: while I was getting an order together for them, I added "Ken's Set" to the list for me, and it arrived yesterday.

My first impression on opening the package was "wow... these really need some sanding". They're my first set with non-metal handles... but after some quick polishing, they're growing on me. In particular, I was made a quick fan of the "flat 5" tools: I'd always used very rigid tension wrenches in the past, but I feel like a have a bit more control when picking spool pins, etc., with these.

Incidentally, I placed the order with Lockpickshop.com: with the 10% "LP101" discount they're effectively the same price as the Peterson site (and for the extra $5 or so I'm just as happy to support one of our official sponsors). The order arrived extremely quickly and was packed well: I'd certainly recommend them to anyone (even outside of the U.S.) who's looking for a good supplier.

[le.nutzman]

the quad rake is a little rough but i did open up locks right out of the box with it, i like their rakes better with the textured handles, like the play and confort i have with them

I was checking this out yesterday after reading this post, what would you guage the functionality of the quad rake as? I'm thinking of actually buying this thing.

[dmux]

i use it like a bogota, with the humps on the pins

[Eyes_Only]

I think I'd rather get an actual bogota.

[dmux]

yea already got em' but i like trying all kinds of different rakes, some are just like keys in the right lock so they are fun to play with

[Mutzy]

whoop, they came in the mail yesterday.

I actually like the prybars, but it seems they have given me two prybars of the same size. NFI which one.

I'm happy nonetheless.

[robotmaxtron]

i was recently given a set of petersons as my work set. My boss apparently works for them and they are supposed to be releasing some new tools here in this next short while so keep your eyes peeled for new stuff.

I love my new set, the long "peterson reach" is one of my new favorite picks