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Buy or Make?

Having read the FAQ's you are still unfulfilled and seek more enlightenment, so post your general lock picking questions here.
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Buy or Make?

Postby mikey31 » 18 Jan 2005 16:44

Im only 15 and have been interested in lock picking for a day or so.

Should I make the picks or should I buy them?

If I buy them can I get them from shops, is so which shops? (Im from Australia).

If I make them are they hard to make?
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Postby Sabin37 » 18 Jan 2005 16:56

I dought you will be able to find picks in a store. Your best bet would definately be to buy them online, which is indubitably the cheapest. LP101 is full of links to great sites that sell lockpicks. Lockpicks.com is a good start. 8)
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Postby silent » 18 Jan 2005 16:56

Most likely you wont be able to buy picks in stores.
(But it could happen)
Making picks is fairly simple to make with proper equiptment.

Buying or making is up to you and your parents.
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Postby mikey31 » 18 Jan 2005 16:59

I really don't want to buy online...what equipment is needed to make picks?
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Postby silent » 18 Jan 2005 17:02

bench grinder or perferabbly dremel, safety glassses!, and sandpaper

things that could be helpful- files, rouge, felt tip bit for dremel, magic marker, really good lighting
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Postby mikey31 » 18 Jan 2005 17:03

My dad has those stuff, but I don't know how to use half of it and doesn't let anyone touch them... :( Are there any othe ways???
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Postby silent » 18 Jan 2005 17:07

Dont touch anothermans tools without permission, they personel.

Theyr are other ways but they wont come out very good
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Postby mikey31 » 18 Jan 2005 17:08

Im a begenner so anything will do!

(Are there other tools I can use as picks?)
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Postby silent » 18 Jan 2005 17:11

So you have no files or are not willing to buy them?
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Postby mikey31 » 18 Jan 2005 17:14

What are "files" if I have to buy them online I won't buy them...
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Postby silent » 18 Jan 2005 17:15

Like a metal file for sharpening chainsaws, go to the local sears and pick em up. Theyr normally under $20.
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Postby mikey31 » 18 Jan 2005 17:21

I think I know what they are, and can they be used for picks?
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Postby silent » 18 Jan 2005 17:22

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Postby silent » 18 Jan 2005 17:23

You make picks with them.......
You get strips of thin metal like windshield wiper spines or brickstrap and grind away your pick.
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Postby mikey31 » 18 Jan 2005 17:28

Thanks, might go to my local hardware store when I get the time to pick the stuff up.
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