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How Many Picks Do You Rely Upon?

When it comes down to it there is nothing better than manual tools for your Lock pick Set, whether they be retail, homebrew, macgyver style. DIY'ers look here.

Re: How Many Picks Do You Rely Upon?

Postby AngryHatter » 25 Aug 2017 23:10

Agree about wrenches being critical to the job although I use pry bars and nothing else.
They are amazing.
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Re: How Many Picks Do You Rely Upon?

Postby AngryHatter » 31 Aug 2017 12:20

Add the double rake to my repertoire.
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Re: How Many Picks Do You Rely Upon?

Postby gumptrick » 31 Aug 2017 13:40

I picked up a set of the Peterson "flat 5" tension tools. I have not used these before but I'm interested to see how I like them. At first glance through their catalog I confused them with TOK tools aka "pry bars" but these are for BOK not TOK. Looking forward to see how they work!
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Re: How Many Picks Do You Rely Upon?

Postby Moses057 » 1 Sep 2017 1:43

Peterson gem
Double rake
Bogota
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Re: How Many Picks Do You Rely Upon?

Postby lostnwilderness » 22 Sep 2019 21:07

I keep trying to carry and use LESS picks. Here is my current Go To/EDC Kit

Peterson C4-Cycloid Quad
C5-Cycloid Quint
C6-Sine Quad
C7-Sine Quint

Peterson Hook 1
Peterson Gem Medium Hook
Peterson Gem Medium Hook Thin Eruo style
Peterson Diamond

For Tension Tools I probably carry 15 or so in the EDC kit. I prefer flat, top of the keyway with a bend and use 1 of the 3 variations if I can get away with it. I don't much care about picks, but on Tension Tools - learn to roll your own and customize as you see fit!
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Re: How Many Picks Do You Rely Upon?

Postby CaptHook » 22 Sep 2019 23:31

HPC hook and rake will get me through a lot of cylinders. I carry a few different wrenches as a rule, some rigid, and a twist. Sometimes a wishbone.

Here is a set I use from time to time if I need tools, but want to go minimal. The hooks are identical, but its my most used pick, so redundancy is ok in my thinking. :lol:

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