Grounded Hacksaw Blade Piks...for beginers

[Andrez Courva]

If desperate you can use hacksaw blades. Not the best but useable .



Thankz to Kez for the jpg.

[Kung]

already been thought of and done a million times pal.

[UnLock]

There's even an awesome video made by Pyro on making home made picks. VERY detailed. Do a search for it.

[Mad Mick]

Urgh! could be a bit harsh on the hands, not to mention the lock. Good image quality though.

[Chucklz]

A little bit of dremel time will let you make picks with really nice heads. Some 100 grit sandpaper will make them pretty.

[mr lockpickman]

i think it'll cut my hand off if i use it, but i'm gonna make 1 anyway, the pyro video won't work on my comp, so i gotta do it from text

[macaba]

Jeez, its like all you guys have become critics in your old age.

Well Done Andrez Courva for a very nice set of picks.

If you wish to take the advice of these fine people, then i suggest you go for grinding the hacksaw blade teeths off.

[Varjeal]

Another little tip to help out on your next set...try to round the corners instead of having sharp edges where the handle and needle form a corner. This will help decrease the chance of breakage.

[Chucklz]

Also, A bit of sanding and polishing of your picks will really improve their "glide" through a lock, and of course make you look really really good at fine metalworking as well.


Raimundo O'connor (regalorastisATSYMBOLyahoo.com) offers the following bit from his guide to making superior picks out of street sweeper bristles

220 Grit -Shaping
320- Intermediate step
400-Fine finish
600- polish

I would add that I often use green scotch brite pads for the final polish, simply because I can get them cheaper than 600 grit paper.

[Alice Cooper]

I found tons of banding steel in a lumber warehouse that's the proper thickness and flexibility.

BTW, I'm new here and fairly new to lockpicking.

[security4]

i just got into pickin but hack saw blades work really well for me on masterlocks and belwiths. i made the small hook pick. be careful as sometimes if you make the end too thin it will break off.

[Gaian]

Also, A bit of sanding and polishing of your picks will really improve their "glide" through a lock,

I picked up a couple dozen 240 grit polishing wheels on ebay for my dremel. Those things are awesome for doing finishing work. With the right touch I can almost get a mirror like finish, and they come out ultra smooth

[sotsog]

has anyone got a link for that pyro video at all?

[mbell]

Try Zeke's FTP: ftp://lockpicking@nickz.homeftp.net/

Username/password are on this site. (101)

Always remember to wear safety goggles (if that point didnt reach you after watching the vids). One of the very few times I don't wear them and I get a shard of metal in my eye. I Can honestly say I've learnt my lesson now after spending over 3 hours in A + E this afternoon.

[Wesson357]

You might want to be careful when griding hacksaw blades coated in teflon:

Teflon® is non-toxic so long as one does not inhale its dust -- or fumes from overheating it. Ordinarily, those circumstances do not occur in the life of the average person. Dust might arise when Teflon® is sawed or abraded. Fumes might arise if one left a Teflon® coated pan on the burner until the coating decomposed. Other than that, one could probably swallow a smooth pellet of Teflon® without undue harm because nothing in the plastic is digestible. Put another way, it is not harmful if one would accidentally eat a little Teflon® as a result of cooking in a scratched Teflon® coated cook-pan.

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