shogun1 wrote:the gosco 23 pice set is pretty good for begginers it has every thing you pretty much need
I disagree... you get 5 hooks and a bunch of other stuff you'll hardly ever need. There is a bunch of stuff for auto locks but unless you're gonna get hardcore into raking car locks you're wasting your money.
Apart from the hook picks and double sided wafer rakes, you get:
- Dimple rake which is ok, but not amazing. Will fit stuff without warding such as certain MTL's and kaba style cylinders
- Saw type rake which is alright, but very thick
- Double half ball rake, eugh...
- Couple of lifter picks which are far too thick
- A super shallow half diamond which is good for bypass and fishing the cam in euros, although you can just use a hook for that stuff anyway... so meh
There is also a variety half diamond type picks which are too thick for any keyway although you can just about scrub the pins with them if that's your thing. Judging by the thickness of them I'd assume they're actually made for autos aswell... so if you're looking at picking pin tumbler locks, for £25 all you're really getting is a set of 5 hooks and some realy crappy rakes. The tension wrenches aren't very good either.
I also have a set of those shalon picks which cost about £5, and they're the same quality as the goso... not superb, but with normal use they hold up very well. The tension wrenches supplied still suck, but apart from that they're pretty good, and the filler picks aren't quite as useless. I bought that goso kit years ago cos it looked big and impressive, it really isn't. If you're gonna spend £25, spend it on something you can get plenty of use out of! That's my 2 cents
