What was your first pick?

[kwoswalt99-]

My first lock was a First Watch Chinese laminated padlock with a plastic bible. Don't have the lock anymore, but here's my very first picks. http://imgur.com/opmc5UU Sheet metal and an allen wrench I found.

[QuantumEntangled]

Mine was a Southord 5 regular pin practice acrylic (which took almost a week or so, not looking of course) I was very new and just finished reading several books on the subject. I used a rake but did not really understand it. Fast forward another ten days, and more reading, and I could reliably SPP it with a small flat topped hook. Next was a hardware store Kwikset which practically fell open with a d rake.

[Nightingangel]

Handcuffs if that counts. Was given an escape class. If not then a master no. 140 with a bobby pin when I lost my keys. After 10min on youtube and 45min of trying and yelling I got it. The next day I ordered my first picks

[Aahicnow]

I was given one of those old metal desks , you know the one that took 3 or 4 guys to lift it because it was the size of a double bed. The drawer was locked on the desk and with the keys being lost many years ago I grabbed two of those big paper clips and raked the lock open. The draw was empty btw don't know why someone would have locked an empty draw but they did.

[GWiens2001]

Possibly to keep it from sliding open while it was being moved?

Gordon

[Thanshin]

A PVC transparent padlock.

I think I could now open it with a stern look.

[ffmurray]

my first pick was probably five or six years ago 3 pin trailer hitch lock. I stopped picking things after that until I started up again a couple of weeks ago after seeing a BosnianBill video, re kindled my interest and I have been picking defiants schlages and masterlocks working on developing my touch

[safecracker33]

A briefcase with a compass whilst at school, many years ago now, then onto handcuffs and from there onto mainstream locks, up to safe locks eventually.

[74TR6]

First pick was not key lock, but three number combo safe. Don't recall name; it had had more than one krylon update, so no lettering. First key lock was automotive; cab of tractor trailer rig-- school activity trip, 20 degrees and windy, and driver locked key in cab. Both 25 to 28 years ago

[mathcat]

Technically my first pick was a cutaway that you've all probably seen on Amazon and the like. It arrived about the same time as my first set of picks (my kick-around set that took the brunt of my beginning picking), an eight piece set from Southern Specialties. After I got the cutaway done about a few dozen times and felt good about the basic mechanics of picking a pin tumbler lock, I grabbed a lock that had been living in our junk drawer, a little brass bodied Brinks padlock. That was about two years ago or so, and the rest is history!

[sisk]

My first pick was a Master #22 with a random bit of metal I had laying around from another hobby. But we aren't really going to count warded locks, are we? No, I don't count it either.

My first pick of a REAL (as in "not so easy an idiot child could do it") lock was my own front door. I knew better than to pick a lock in use before I ever got into lockpicking, but it just so happens that I managed to lock myself out of the house about 5 minutes after I got my first picks, which were in my pocket. (Yes, I really did, no it wasn't on purpose. I thought my keys were in my pocket right up until I went to get in the car and couldn't unlock it.) Fortunately(?) for me my landlord must have been broke last time that lock needed replaced because I raked it open in about 10 seconds. I since replaced the drivers in it with spools and serrated pins. It takes 15 seconds to rake now. I guess a cheap lock with good pins is still a cheap lock.

And then I spent the next week struggling with a Master #3. In fairness I've actually given up on ever raking that particular #3. It's actually got decent bitting that makes it very difficult to rake and even a little bit challenging to SPP. My other #3s turned out to be much less stubborn.