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Your Favorite Tool

Having read the FAQ's you are still unfulfilled and seek more enlightenment, so post your general lock picking questions here.
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Your Favorite Tool

Postby Scope » 26 Jul 2010 15:27

Name your Favorite Tool, and why, can be anything, although it has to be Lock Picking related & you can only name one item!.... :D

I'll start it off:

Tool: Lock Pick Reference Books/Pick guides

Why: You learn something all the time, sometimes, even the best will forget something they might already know, but have just fogotten.
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Re: Your Favorite Tool

Postby globallockytoo » 26 Jul 2010 17:23

Rytan plug spinner.

'cos if you pick a lock the wrong way, you can spin it back without the need to repick.
One One was a race horse, one one won one race, one two was a racehorse, one two won one too.

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Re: Your Favorite Tool

Postby RevDisk » 26 Jul 2010 18:19

Scope wrote:Name your Favorite Tool, and why, can be anything, although it has to be Lock Picking related & you can only name one item!.... :D


Majestic small hook pick.

Seriously, I've tried (and own) all kinds of fancy picks, and in the end, I always just go back to my $2.50 Majestic hook and $1 wrench. I like all my other picks and I practice with them occasionally just to stay in practice. But... eh.
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Re: Your Favorite Tool

Postby dallalama » 30 Jul 2010 8:30

my dremel cant live with out it
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Re: Your Favorite Tool

Postby globallockytoo » 30 Jul 2010 12:10

dallalama wrote:my dremel cant live with out it


and this is lock picking related, how?
One One was a race horse, one one won one race, one two was a racehorse, one two won one too.

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Re: Your Favorite Tool

Postby pjzstones » 30 Jul 2010 13:30

globallockytoo wrote:
dallalama wrote:my dremel cant live with out it


and this is lock picking related, how?

making tools, and i'd have to agree with him.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them
Galileo Galilei
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Re: Your Favorite Tool

Postby nostromo » 30 Jul 2010 13:41

The internet.
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Re: Your Favorite Tool

Postby Legion303 » 30 Jul 2010 21:52

My brain's aptitude for spacial logic.

-steve
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Re: Your Favorite Tool

Postby TriannaX » 31 Jul 2010 19:05

Tool: Fat Tire in a Can.
Reason: Shim stock that comes with FREE BEER!

Aluminum cans in general lock for making shims.
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Re: Your Favorite Tool

Postby AmmoBox » 3 Aug 2010 22:15

my Folding Pocket Pick Set from lockpicktools.com

I've been using it so much lately, id be lost without it. It is my fav tool.

I've lost it a couple times out of my pocket but retraced my steps and found it in the grass/ground.

If you dont have one, get one!
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Re: Your Favorite Tool

Postby LocksmithArmy » 4 Aug 2010 0:42

AmmoBox wrote:my Folding Pocket Pick Set from lockpicktools.com

I've been using it so much lately, id be lost without it. It is my fav tool.

I've lost it a couple times out of my pocket but retraced my steps and found it in the grass/ground.

If you dont have one, get one!


dude i carry one aswell... ive lost a million times and over 200 miles away and it always ends up being found with relative ease...

crazy how that works huh
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Re: Your Favorite Tool

Postby pin_pusher » 4 Aug 2010 21:20

these deadly killing machines i call my hands...


:mrgreen:
unlock the funk
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Re: Your Favorite Tool

Postby cppdungeon » 23 Aug 2010 3:46

Sandpaper. I would almost say files, but picks can be made many many ways, but they can always be improved with sandpaper :D

--Cpp
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Re: Your Favorite Tool

Postby fjardeson » 24 Aug 2010 8:22

Raimundo's Bogatas. 'Nuff said.
--Fjardeson

I'll call your S&G 8500 and raise you a RKL-10!
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Re: Your Favorite Tool

Postby FarmerFreak » 24 Aug 2010 8:54

Legion303 wrote:My brain's aptitude for spacial logic.

-steve
+1, except in my case it would be my brain. Not that yours is bad, I just can't reasonably put it in my head...
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