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LAB pick shapes

When it comes down to it there is nothing better than manual tools for your Lock pick Set, whether they be retail, homebrew, macgyver style. DIY'ers look here.

LAB pick shapes

Postby lplink » 8 Mar 2005 0:48

I bought the 11 piece LAB pick set. According to the vendor description, there are 3 "deep hook" picks in the set. But upon close examination, they don't appear to be identical. The tip of one of them appears to be rounded, the tip of another appears to be flattened with the flat surface at about a 30 degree angle to the tang, and the tip of the third appears to be flattened with the flat surface parallel to the tang but with a very slight dimple in the center, the latter pick reminding me of something I read somewhere about some picks being designed this way in order to aid centering the pick on a pin without the pick slipping off.
But these differences are very slight. Can anybody else who has this set tell me whether the differences are intentional, or are just machining irregularities?

Also, these LAB picks are the only picks I have. Can anybody who also has southord slimline picks (hooks particularly) tell me how they compare in size to the LAB picks?
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Postby WhiteHat » 8 Mar 2005 2:20

Hi there,

this picture here (warning: 230kb):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/ ... ompare.jpg

has an excelent side by side view of different pick sets - originally provided by zeke79

hope that helps a bit
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Postby MrB » 8 Mar 2005 2:49

Hmmm. In that picture, the standard Southord seems really fat and chunky compared to the Falle Safe, LAB or Brockhage. I didn't realise the difference was so marked.
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Postby Romstar » 10 Mar 2005 1:05

The difference is amazing actually.

Once you really start comparing the picks side by side, you begin to see why certain picks are prefered over others for different types of locks.

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