What did you pick today?

[Rickthepick]

Iv never seen one picked and certainly not by me You guys must have some serious skill

[chriswingate]

Reminds me of the first Assa Twin series cylinder I ever picked, except, add a month or two.

Haha I should clarify, it definitely took me months to crack it for the first time, and it took me hours and hours to get it down to a respectable time for a video. The Twin V-10 was a work in progress for a long time. Definitely feels great to crack them though.

[femurat]

A nice medeco keymark. This lock has very short and similar key pins while the ones in contact with the springs have very different lengths. Usually top pins are almost identical and bottom pins have different lengths. I don't know what's the purpose of this unusual choice.

As you can see I put a small bamboo handle on this wrench. The handle is free to move and slip away, since it's a lot bigger than the wrench and I didn't glued or secured them together. I just wanted a comfortable place to put my finger on. I kept it in place with my finger.
I think the feedback was not reduced by the handle, but It's important to put the wrench in the center of the plug.

Cheers

[femurat]

Sorry for double post, but I managed to upload the pins picture...

Cheers

[chriswingate]

That's a cool tension wrench idea. I like Keymarks, yours is interesting though, mine had vastly different height key pins, with balanced drivers. That keyway is a pain to pick. Nice work!

[femurat]

Thanks chriswingate,

keymark profile is one of the most interesting. I had to try many half diamonds to find the right one. I choose the biggest one which could slip between wards and reach the pins. To move it in and out I had to go down in the pin chamber, in or out in the keyway, and then up again trough the pin channel... it takes a bit to get used to this sequence.

If you like this kind of "labyrinth game", you should try a cisa 285 padlock with an even funnier profile:



Cheers

[Solomon]

Ah, the good old lim profile, pure evil. The abus C83 uses the same one, horrible to pick around. But... I see your cisa and raise you this beast!

[femurat]

Hey Solomon, nice profile... at least tell me make and model so I can look for one on ebay

[Solomon]

It's an EVVA, they have all kinds of crazy profiles. I'm not sure what this one is, it's restricted section at any rate so finding one the same might not prove the easiest.

[chriswingate]

Thanks chriswingate,

keymark profile is one of the most interesting. I had to try many half diamonds to find the right one. I choose the biggest one which could slip between wards and reach the pins. To move it in and out I had to go down in the pin chamber, in or out in the keyway, and then up again trough the pin channel... it takes a bit to get used to this sequence.

If you like this kind of "labyrinth game", you should try a cisa 285 padlock with an even funnier profile:


Cheers

I actually have a Cisa 285 padlock, very cool keyway, lots of fun to pick. For the Keymark I had to use one of my narrow low profile Falle-Safe hook picks. Worked wonders. I like evil keyways!

[Theist17]

As a mere mortal, I'd like to stop by and mention that I picked my first disc tumbler lock today. Maxed the poor little thing out at five discs in three seconds. Definitely a different feel from pin tumblers.

[chriswingate]

A Sargent Mortise Cylinder, modified by Farmerfreak.
This lock has serrated key pins, and serrated stacked T pins.

[femurat]

Congrats chriswingate for beating that beast! I wonder how the heck you pick a lock pinned like that? I guess it's almost impossible to distinguish between a false set due to a middle pin and a top pin.

Well done FarmerFreak, you made an interesting setup with those serrated.

Cheers

[chriswingate]

[quote="femurat"]Congrats chriswingate for beating that beast! I wonder how the heck you pick a lock pinned like that? I guess it's almost impossible to distinguish between a false set due to a middle pin and a top pin.quote]

Thanks a lot femurat

Here is a link to the video if you want to see how I picked it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojo-3mKbJdw

As far as the false set, at first I tried to avoid it, but I learned that in this lock, it is my friend. The way the lock is set up, only the middle pins (the serrated T pins, known as drunken spools) sit inside the plug and the housing, the top set of pins stay inside of the chamber, stopping the springs from getting in the plug, and making those serrated T pins sit "drunk" as Farmerfreak says. Definitely makes for a hard lock to pick, and a very crunchy one too.

[Rickthepick]

Seems much harder being mounted in a padlock...plays mind tricks