ARCHIVE 2003-2013 Introduce yourself HERE if you are new. :)

[donsatt]

Hello, I am a maintenance man. I first tried picking to save money when apartment locks have been changed, but now i handle properties in five states and can not learn enough. I mostly deal with 5 pin Kwickset but enjoy picking anything I can get my hands on. Still new to picking and willing to learn all I can. Look forward to learning from all the members.

[Lostreb]

Hi everyone, I'm still learning locksmithing and I found this site. I thought it might be a good place to pick up some pointers in the professional end of lockpicking.

[clem_c_rock]

Hello - I'm new to the lockpicking world but I'm very excited I found this forum. How do you get forum posting priveleges?

Thanks all

[clem_c_rock]

hello - very glad I found this site. I just tried to post a question and it said I didn't have posting rights. How do you get posting rights on this site.

Great to meet you all.

[tjweaver84]

Hello I started pick about 8 years ago but haven't done much in the last 5 years because I have been too busy with work but now have started getting back into it and found this website and want to say thanks for all the info I've gotten just from reading these forums

[Desette]

Hey Everyone,

Up from the great west regions of Canada and am an avid lock picker and have been for a few years, I mainly use non-professional sets so far or portable sets as well as improvised lockpicking tools (sometimes are better then the ones we can buy :P)

I have enjoyed the benifit and puzzle of lockpicking for some time and wanted to make it a carrer but for now I am in the carrer of Security/Surveillance and am happy in this area.

I have recently been interested in more high-security locks and safe and was looking for discussion on it :D.

So thanks for all your help from previous posts I will learn from and for the help in the future.

Regards

[krissylion]

Hi all,

My husband and I found a Hayman floor safe while replacing some carpet in our closet. It was exciting to see at first, but it was locked of course.

We are always up for a challenge, so we put away the model airplanes and robot kits and started cracking the safe. Finding the contact points was very easy, and we have already found our first gate at 43! We are at a little of a standstill now. Wish us luck!

Krissy

[david mccullough]

Aloha,

I found you after I googled my Dad's Sargent & Greeleaf padlock 8088 that I knew the combination for but had forgotten the turn sequence. Thanks for a great forum.

Then I remembered that I have a bunch (over 20, have not counted in awhile) of very old locks. Some probably from the late 1800's and from the early 1900's. I live on my family Ranch about 2 1/2 hours North of San Francisco and we bought the ranch (about 150 acres) in 1963. I started living here full time last November. Till I got onto the site I never thought about actually opening and bringing these great old locks back to live. Most are key locks (please forgive my lack of proper terminology at this point) with no key attached. However, all the locks are in a big round cookie tin and there are literally hundreds of keys mixed in with them. No pictures yet but if anyone is interested I will take photos.

My idea is to fix one at a time and then display them or maybe even use them indoors? I am open to being educated and taught folks. I will read more newbie information soon. I am an Emergency Room RN and volunteer firefighter so I need to get ready to leave for work in the early a.m.

First lock I would love information on or know where to look is a combination padlock, brass (?), front of the dial says: Junkunk Bros. Mfrs. Chicago, Ill. Pat'd Oct 9, 1912 Others pending. On the back: F (at the top), then 4494. Below that someone scratched into the metal by hand: 865.

Apologies if this is an overly long first post. Other locks to whet your interest: New Champion 6-lever, Reese Secure Lever (with 2 keys!), Padlock in shape of a horseshoe that stays Good Luck on the bottom half, pat'd June 24, 1879 with a capitol H stamped on the right bottom of the hasp, an Imperial round lock that looks riveted together with a very small flat hasp (hope I have the terminology correct!) and for a total of about 30 old locks.

Just thought of something - if there is an antique lock site - point me that way. Thanks again to all who read this. Thank you very much, David

[unlisted]

Aloha,

I found you after I googled my Dad's Sargent & Greeleaf padlock 8088 that I knew the combination for but had forgotten the turn sequence. Thanks for a great forum.

Then I remembered that I have a bunch (over 20, have not counted in awhile) of very old locks. Some probably from the late 1800's and from the early 1900's. I live on my family Ranch about 2 1/2 hours North of San Francisco and we bought the ranch (about 150 acres) in 1963. I started living here full time last November. Till I got onto the site I never thought about actually opening and bringing these great old locks back to live. Most are key locks (please forgive my lack of proper terminology at this point) with no key attached. However, all the locks are in a big round cookie tin and there are literally hundreds of keys mixed in with them. No pictures yet but if anyone is interested I will take photos.

My idea is to fix one at a time and then display them or maybe even use them indoors? I am open to being educated and taught folks. I will read more newbie information soon. I am an Emergency Room RN and volunteer firefighter so I need to get ready to leave for work in the early a.m.

First lock I would love information on or know where to look is a combination padlock, brass (?), front of the dial says: Junkunk Bros. Mfrs. Chicago, Ill. Pat'd Oct 9, 1912 Others pending. On the back: F (at the top), then 4494. Below that someone scratched into the metal by hand: 865.

Apologies if this is an overly long first post. Other locks to whet your interest: New Champion 6-lever, Reese Secure Lever (with 2 keys!), Padlock in shape of a horseshoe that stays Good Luck on the bottom half, pat'd June 24, 1879 with a capitol H stamped on the right bottom of the hasp, an Imperial round lock that looks riveted together with a very small flat hasp (hope I have the terminology correct!) and for a total of about 30 old locks.

Just thought of something - if there is an antique lock site - point me that way. Thanks again to all who read this. Thank you very much, David

Hey welcome to the site, best to make another post asking these questions in the "got questions" forum..



(oh and I want all your locks!)

[stu]

Hi im Stu. Also known as Burylad on another forum.

I started picking locks about 10 months ago, i'd say im moving on quite quickly. Started off picking 7 lockers at work (they hadnt been opened for 8years) I picked them all with a girls hair clip LOL.

[clem_c_rock]

hello - I'm completely new to this but very excited. I tried to post a question in the forums and it said I didn't have authorization. Any reasons why?

[CrowdedApartment]

Hi I'm Beck. I've been on this forum for a while but I don't remember introducing myself. I mostly read up and practicing picking for fun, but I've occasionally used my knowledge at work, don't worry its been legal.

[boxeagle]

I am just looking into getting certified and maybe use locksmithing as a second job when I get back to the states from an overseas military assignment. Found this forum and it seemed to have more genuine information than the others that just wanted the lock bypass tricks.

[boxeagle]

I am mark. I am just looking into getting certified and maybe use locksmithing as a second job when I get back to the states from an overseas military assignment. Found this forum and it seemed to have more genuine information than the others that just wanted the lock bypass tricks.

[kins]

Hi im Tom.had a very quiet day at work today so i made my self a pick out of a hack saw blade and a tension wrench out of a allen key an proceeded to pick the 5 pin pad lock on my tool box. Im now addicted and ill be looking for locks to pick in me house when i get home :)