What did you pick today?

[boggif]

Abus 65/40. I feels like it has one serrated or double slotted spool which I did not expect at all.

[GWiens2001]

Thank you, Femurat. The hardest one was the Yale. The other ones I picked holding the locks on my hand, but almos nothing could be felt on the Yale until I popped it into a vice. Then with the extra feedback was able to pick it three times in a row. Will have to field strip it sometime soon and take a look at the pins.

Gordon

[Cyberfox]

Few classic 5 pin euro cylinders and one dimple ISEO R6

[vinnie]

an unknown lock that says "secure" on it. certainly was not very secure.. although I'd be interested to find out a bit more about it

[torugl]

Second time open.

TrioVing 7-pin. A bit over my skill, so spent some time on it. But it after some effort, I silently sayed; open! Sweeeet.
It has all 7 spool/ballel drivers, and normal key-pins. Some pictures of the "gutting".





Other locks done to day, to keep up the practise.
1x double Eu profile (Y1 keyway?) TreLock 5-pin
1 x 5pin Sager (old lock)
1x 5pin Corbin
Abus 65/40 padlock
Some Schlage 6-pins
1x Sabre Eu profile 6-pin
And some other unmarked padlocks.

Did some shimming, and one impressioning of a 4pin Schlage.

A great day of locksport practising

[GWiens2001]

Did not know that Schlage made 4 pin locks. Is this one of the older wafer locks?

Gordon

[torugl]

No. I removed 2 pins, just to make it easyer.
I'm just starting up with impressioning. So I keep it on a basic level...

[GWiens2001]

That is a good way to start with impressioning. Have you bought some sort of magnifier yet? It helps a LOT with seeing the marks.

Gordon

[torugl]

I just use a little juwelry magnifier. But I'm looking for a magnifying lamp.
The little one makes it very hard to focus, and the eyes gets tired fast. But it is fun to finally get the key to turn. So I work with what I have..

[Cyberfox]

I just pick Elzett X11 in the less than 20 min with great GOSO dimple pick for 6 main pins and Southord small half diamond for side and upper pins. Story is are very simple, when I once catch false and after that true set for 6 main pins need just to little push side pins with half diamond and CLICK X11 is picked.





Thanks to Lockpickfan who generously give me this interesting cylinder

Sorry for low quality picture (this is from my mobile phone) I upload better quality very soon

[Cyberfox]

Better quality picture of picked Elzett X11 and tools which I use for picking

[Cyberfox]

ISEO R6 is one more cylinder which I picked in the near past

Thanks to Fermurat who supplied me with this interesting cylinder



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEKkeevP ... e=youtu.be

[femurat]

Well done my friend. You mastered this lock, great technique!
I'm happy you still play with the lock I sent you.

Cheers

[Pickmequick]

A bad habit picking locks on working doors but i'm running out and this door only has a month left before it is replaced with an internal door as extension nearly complete

It's a Yale 5 pin with spools and picked rather quickly at around 4 minutes on my 1st attempt

[Legion303]

DeJo 7-pin Swedish lock. I don't know the proper bittings for this blank, but the cuts seem to correspond closely to the key's stamp (lower numbers = longer pins): 2144346.

-steve