Developing 'The Feel'

[ricardo_crazy]

Sometimes, a setting pin has nothing to do with sound. Obviously when the tension/torsion you are doing is very light. And also it happens if 2 pins are sharing, receive the tension almost equally, because they are aligned almost perfectly in a straight-line-like way .

[Bishop]

I pick locks a lot in my spare time just to pass it. It helps just to have a couple locks laying around where you can find them easy and then if your doing the lazy thing and click on the tv to sit there for the next 2-3 hours and what, you can just grab the lock and pick it while watching tv. That way your hearing is not helping, your vision is locked, and its all feel. It really works your mind to mulitask with something like lockpicking but just imagine the possibilities when you can pick locks "without thinking." That beats mastering the feel and all because then it almost becomes subconscious. This is the way I practice anyway, I may be idealistic with my views at times. Just thought I'd throw that out anyway.

[engelbert]

am i right in thinking we have no drillers on this site ?

[Romstar]

am i right in thinking we have no drillers on this site ?

Oh, those of us who do this professionally do occasionally have to dig out the drill. It's not something we want, or even really like, but sometimes we just have no other choice in the field.

Romstar

[engelbert]

this is true reading posts on this site is very interesting but lots of people are trying to pick locks which takes ages to perfect and it is great to perfect but i think that drilling should be an option customers are often happier to have old cylinders replaced instead of standing there for however long it takes picking is good but in the field drilling is best

[Luke]

Dude, in the field drilling is the worst... What you havnt thought of is that most locksmiths will give a whack and hand picking 3 mins or so and alot of the time (50 - 80 %) the lock will open, then its the pick guns turn to shine. Sometimes though the pick gun does come out first. Also before a lock is drilled any other door in the house is generally tried - most of the time resulting in entry. There is a reason in the adds for locksmiths it says "Locks opened" and not "Locks opened and destroyed"