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Hey. New here. Order of locks according to difficulty

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Hey. New here. Order of locks according to difficulty

Postby Punt » 22 Jan 2013 13:52

Hey everyone my name is Joe. I'm new to the world of lockpicking and so far I am really enjoying it. It feels very natural to me. I've been working on these two pad locks for the past week and now I am able to pick them in under 15 secs each. I'm going to pick up some more locks soon but I'm not sure what kind of locks I should look into. I'll post a picture of the two locks I've been working on for the past week, but within the second day of lock picking they just became way too easy to pick. I've done a lot of reading lately and I have quite a bit of knowledge considering I just started. I would like to pick up a bunch of locks that increase in difficulty so I continue this hobby and stay busy for a long long time. I want to work on 1 lock until I can pick it within a short amount of time every time, then move on to the next level of difficulty.
Does anybody have a simple list of locks that increase in difficulty as you go down the list?
What locks would you recommend to me for the next step? Specifically something with security pins.


These are the locks I've been messing around with
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Re: Hey. New here. Order of locks according to difficulty

Postby vinnie » 22 Jan 2013 16:33

You can get pretty cheap Master locks with security pins, I'd say that's the next logical step.

Take a look through this thread and find something that appeals to you:

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=23712

personally I'd say something with spooled pins.
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Re: Hey. New here. Order of locks according to difficulty

Postby MrAnybody » 22 Jan 2013 18:49

Punt wrote:
What locks would you recommend to me for the next step? Specifically something with security pins.


Welcome to the forum, Punt.

What country are you from? Common options are mostly specific to USA, Europe or Australia etc.
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Re: Hey. New here. Order of locks according to difficulty

Postby mmcc » 22 Jan 2013 19:11

Pin tumblers are simple, especially the Master locks. I can open their highest rated lock in under 5 seconds. Cheap bicycle locks can be quite tricky and so can this one from Capitol:

http://www.capitolessentials.com/product.php?id=81

Try locks with anti-pick keyways and security pins. You can find some one e-Bay that are quite good:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LOCKSMITH-CUT ... 4ac0829058

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LOCKSMITH-CUT ... 4ac0a612d5

Then you could move to combination padlocks, lever padlocks and Mortice locks:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LOCKSMITH-PRA ... 4ac008207e

Then dimple locks, cheap disc detainer and finally move on to Abloy (classic, profile, protec, protec2, etc.).
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Re: Hey. New here. Order of locks according to difficulty

Postby Punt » 22 Jan 2013 22:12

I am from the USA. These forums are great by the way. Seems like a lot of helpful people here
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