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Progressive spool training

Picked all the easy locks and want to step up your game? Further your lock picking techniques, exchange pro tips, videos, lessons, and develop your skills here.

Progressive spool training

Postby Peter Martin » 5 Oct 2020 15:29

Deviant Ollam's book Practical Lockpicking has some suggestions for exercises to increase your skill level dealing with spools.
Been at this most of the weekend, following his chart.
I'm now at 5 pins, #2 and #4 are spools. It takes some very light tension touch to feel the counter-rotation. Even when you know which pins should give you this feedback, sometimes you don't feel it and the pins just feel stuck.
Next is 3 spool pins... #1,3 and 5.
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Re: Progressive spool training

Postby GWiens2001 » 5 Oct 2020 15:40

I really like the PLP book. Keys to the Kingdom is also a good read. Deviant Ollam has written some pretty good books.

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