How to make your own pics?

[hasuinterceptor44]

Hello everyone!

This is my first visit to this here fine discussion board!

My question is (I guess) pretty simple. I could now find the information I seek through the search engine in this forum, and that is why I seek your council

Could anyone provide me with a link (to a different site, or maybe a thread on this board - no difference), or perhaps write a bit about (if you like) what is actually needed to make your own pics? I mean, what peaces of technology and skills are needed? And I'm not talking about any complicated pics - just the basics.

Thank you!

[WhiteHat]

this is an excelent video:

viewtopic.php?t=1095

if those links still work I'm sure a bit of serching will help.

[Geek142]

This is a link to a pretty basic guide i found of the net

http://www.gregmiller.net/locks/makelockpicks.html

hope that helps

[Geek142]

And if your new and dont know much

http://www.gregmiller.net/locks/

That should get you started

[Jenova]

Whats stopping you from buying some ????
Nice brand new shiny ones :d

[xodishox]

this question has been asked a lot of times, answered to.

heres the skinny

Materials:
what you could use is street bristle, hacksaw blades, windshield wiper spines, plumbing snake, feeler guage or whatever you prefer.

Tools/Hardware:
get a very good file, rotary tool, bench grinder or an angle grinder and safety glasses, better safe than sorry... i learnt it the hard way
(you could either watch pyro's great movie on making picks, which i extremely recommend for begginers, good job pyro... or read on)

The How-To:
Ok, go around this site and look for pick templates of the basic picks, if you cant find any after a deep search, very doubtful you wont, but in-case you dont ask someone to post up pictures and sizes with a micrometer of the basic shapes such as half diamond, a simple rake, short hook, long hook and maybe a half circle/ball (remember not to ask pointless idiodic questions or else u just get flamed by others, that reminds me, read on l8er for something on that).
Get out the tool you have.

File - Put material into a vice or something to get a tight grip on, and file it down to the desired shape.

Rotary Tool - Get a grinding disk and slowly grind off the metal to make the shape (Tip: Dont force the grinding disk, let the tool do the work. Remember: Safety First! use SAFETY GLASSES, i cannot stress this enough, your eyes dont have a lifetime warranty!).

Bench Grinder - Move the material onto the grinding wheel slowly and gently, grind to desired shape, remember to quench in water roughly every 3 seconds or you will ruin the temper (safety glasses!!! Wear them).

Angle Grinder - Put the angle grinder into a vice on its backso the disk is facing you and use it the same as a bench grinder, as with all these types of equipment, safety glasses are needed.

Hope that helps

as i said earlier
"remember not to ask pointless idiodic questions or else u just get flamed by others"

flaming someone is just like asking pointless idiodic questions, a noob looks at it and thinks, u just keep saying the same thing over and over to noobs

[xodishox]

Whats stopping you from buying some ????
Nice brand new shiny ones :d

because what if you dont like the hobby of lockpicking? useless on spending money on them

[hasuinterceptor44]

Hi everyone, and thans very much for your helping

I'm just getting started with the lockpicking thing (for now, as a hobby - maybe something more in the future). And as for the making-my-own-pics thing, its because I immidiately noticed that you can earn alot by selling pics like those here (I live in Poland) along with simple tutorials. So out of curiosity I just wanted to know what it takes to make your own pics

You'll probably hear from me soon enough - I just ordered my very firs basic LockPick kit (http://www.lockpicks.com/index.asp?Page ... &ProdID=22). It was one of the cheapest ones I've found. I don't want to spend too much money on this before I get to know this skill a little better, but hopefully I will buy something more "advanced" not very long from now

Thanks again to all of you!

-Mark

[hasuinterceptor44]

Oh by the way, a question:

There are some locks here in my house (and my building) which do not have ordinary pins. instead, it has like a pin standing almost out of the keyhole (so that the head of the pin is facing me), and this pin goes inside the key when you put the key into the lock. I figure these locks are very easy to bypass, since I've only encountered them in places like mailing boxes, or my own bedroom closets etc.

Anyone has an idea about this? I can make pictures of a lock like this and a key to it if that would help.

Thanks!

[raimundo]

try the author search for bembel, then pm him. he lives in poland and makes very good picks, if you see a post by him on the site, click on profile at the bottom of the post, the when the profile comes up, click on 'view all posts by bembel. I think he could help you.

[hasuinterceptor44]

Thanks alot, I'll contact him right away.

[xodishox]

I think the lock your talking about is a tubular, im not sure, because tubular locks have pins facing you and the key is round and the pins go inside the key.

As for a basic set the southord MPXS - 5 set is the most basic one, and i think you get the book 'Easy Pickings' for free with it (not sure on that one)

good luck on your lockpicking future

[xodishox]

try the author search for bembel, then pm him. he lives in poland and makes very good picks, if you see a post by him on the site, click on profile at the bottom of the post, the when the profile comes up, click on 'view all posts by bembel. I think he could help you.

heh, bembels a legend lol, he made a jacknife, a plug spinner, lots of picks out of feeler guage, the pick in his siggy the one with the fold out picks, i envy u bembel! lol

[bembel]

Lol, thanks.

But I just want to state that I'm from Germany and not from Poland.
(I was scratching my head a lot today when I unexpectedly got this mysteriously polish PM... )

Anyway, welcome to the forum, hasuinterceptor44

[raimundo]

sorry bem, on the other topic, I would like to say, there are those here who only have pics they made, and there are those who only buy them, and those who do both. I go with the make all your own, and use the lock and the key to guide you as to size and such, do not be influenced by the extreme cuts on the key, since the pick will be moving in the keyway in a way the key cannot. I believe that making your own picks, you come to understand the whole thing better, and you are capable of adapting when a new lock puzzle comes along, that said, any pick you make whether filed, or grinder, needs to be finished with metal cutting sandpaper of a fine grit. This prevents the roughness from sawing into the keyway and the pins and making the lock much harder to pick because of the filings and scratches that jam the lock.