what book to get?

[kid]

Hello again. please dont get sick of answering my questions! ok, i am planning on getting a book to teach myself how to pick locks. i can pick cheap desk locks and am pretty good at that. i am pretty skilled but havent opened a real lock yet. what books would you reccomend for pin tumbler locks??? thanks!

[rakemaster]

The 2 best books are free.

The MIT guide http://www.lysator.liu.se/mit-guide/mit-guide.html

The crypto.com guide http://www.crypto.com/papers/notes/picking/index.html

The crypto.com book has step by step lessons. The MIT book has pictures of picks you can make.

I saw a copy of secrets of lockpicking and didnt see any info in you cant get for free on the web.

The LSS book is supposed to be good but very expensive$$$

Rakemaster

[Eyes_Only]

Complete Guide To Lock Picking by Eddie the WIre...if you're willing to pay around $15 for it. its a really good book. it helped me out a lot when i first started off in this craft.

[ninja5000]

I learned much from Visual Guide to Lock Picking-2nd edition

[Eagle]

Don't forget to check out howthingswork.com under lockpicking. Good animation and illustrations to get the basic idea.

[silent]

Another thing along with a book, is a lock to take apart and repin. Reading alone wont make you good.

-silent

[CurioPiKXzz]

The LSS book is supposed to be good but very expensive$$$

sorry, but what 'LSS book' is this?

[The Wanderer]

The LSS book is titled "Locks, safes and security". I personally have never seen a copy of it. It is a gigantic tome on every facet of the books title. The cost is $219.00 US + tax. There are CD's that come with it. There are 2 CD's for the layman, 4 for the locksmith and 10 for law enforcement etcetera.
If you buy a copy I'd love to borrow it. Hehe...just kidding. [/quote]

[rakemaster]

I bought a copy of LSS a few months ago (convinced parents
to include it along with textbooks for the fall sem).

It doesnt include the cds you buy them separately. I got the locksmith
ed.

The book is AMAZING. Almost every lock ever made and how to
defeat. The CDs have the book text with some updates plus a lot of
audio and video stuff.

Expensive but worth it imho

Rakemaster

[CurioPiKXzz]

The book is AMAZING. Almost every lock ever made and how to
defeat. The CDs have the book text with some updates plus a lot of
audio and video stuff.

Expensive but worth it imho

Rakemaster

wow!!! nice... You've got (cool) parents!!! Could i... be ur brother???

just kidding...

did u have to prove that u were a locksmith in order to get the locksmith's edition? how about if u order it online?

[rakemaster]

I got the book from amazon.

I just ordered the locksmith cds online after I bought the book, showed up a week later. No problem.

You have to get a code to install the cds after you get them. windoze only. I run vmware and linux so its not a prob for me, i just installed on my win partition. The cds arent just pdfs and video files it runs under something called folio that only runs only windowz.

Rakemasters

[HeyZeus]

Rakemaster,

Does it have a good section on Medeco locks?

[rakemaster]

Its got a section on medeco with a defeat for the old medeco cam lock.

[Uisgdlyast]

This is my first post and i'm pretty new, I've always been interested in lock picking and just finally ordered a set (mxps-14)

So i'm wondering if i should think about investing in a book or just stay on this website and learn?

The howstuff works is really good and while i'm waiting for my set i'll probably read the MIT.

Thanks

[aikidoka21]

Eddie the Wire's "The Complete Guide to Lockpicking" is a good starting book. (First one I ever got anyway) It's helped me out anyway. I also have Bill Phillips "The Complete Book of Locks and Locksmithing" It has about 650 some odd pages with a little quiz at the end. It supposedly is compable with the actuall test you take to become a licenced locksmith. But if you're looking for something that covers basics pretty well I think Bill Phillips is a good choice. Just my two cents.
-Jay