Pick Templates

[Chrispy]

These are some of the picks that I have made over the last couple of months. As I live in Australia, it is extremely hard to get a decent set of picks. Enjoy these templates.

Credit goes to Pyro for his excellent video which had lots of helpful tips.

Chrispy

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P.S. I have a sneaking suspicion that Photobucket is going to resize it, rendering the template useless. Hopefully Zeke will let me post them on his site....

[Chrispy]

Dagnabbit.....


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That's better....

[master in training]

that looks like a nice set, well done

about the bottom 3 picks...
the bottom one is a bit odd, was this one of your own design? how does it do at picking locks?
the one above it looks like a fairly good rake, almost like a wafer lock rake of something, my only concern is it looks like there could be a weak point where the pick head joins the handle. the same goes for a few of the other picks as well, where the handle is very square where it joins to the pickhead, it is usually better to have a sort of sloped area rather than totally square.
the pick third from bottom is also a strange design, what was the thinking behind it? how well does it work for picking?

they do look like a nice pickset though, good job! no doubt the templates will come in useful to people as well!

~ Master in Training ~

[Geek142]

I like the double hook idea, i have though about it myself but have never tried it, it would have to be made real small to fit in the keyways but it looks good and so do the rest

Good job.

Geek

[Geek142]

Bah! no edit

Well what other thing i had to add is that the double sided hook looks good but it wont really work, the hook parts will make it awkward to get into the lock, and the only lock that is double sided is the double sided wafer lock (well what i know anyways) and hooks dont tend to go well with wafers in my opinion but instead use a diamond, so maybe a double sided half diamond would be good, or you could just call its a full diamond

Geek

[Kaellman]

Nice temps. Is the last one a tubular lock pick? I cant tell if it would fit in a tub. lock since i dont know the scale of the temps, and i cant come up with any other use for it. The double-sided hook is also cool, but wont work, and if it would work i cant find any reason to why it should be double-sided. And that diamond ( forth from top ) will most certanly get stuck if you rake with it. It will hook the pins like fishes, and in case you dont want it that way, you need to make the angle on both sides of the diamond less steep.

Always nice with new temps! Keep up the good work!

[Chrispy]

All the things mentioned in the above posts are exactly the problems that I have been having with some of these picks.

The double hook (3rd from bottom) is for wafer locks, and yes, it is too big and needs to be cut down in size. It also needs the curve of each hook to be reduced in length as well. The diamonds (2nd and 3rd from top) have too steep an angle and get stuck on some pins. And yes, the auto jiggler/wafer pick (2nd from bottom) has a weak part joining the shaft to the handle, I always think it's going to break when I use it. It works though.

Comments, suggestions, and criticisms are always welcome. How else can one grow?

[capt.dunc]

the third from bottom looks like it's for a type of american mailbox, the bottom one looks like it's for u.s. lever locks, the flat key type. no.7 looks like an extractor, not a pick. no.1 and no.10 are rarely seen in pictures of people's picks, they're probes, and very useful. if i had to make up a basic pick set then it would be one of the first things in there. well done chrispy, i suspect you'll end up using about 6 of those, but it's often the way when making your own.

[jamesphilhulk2]

hi has anyone got good templates for warded picks or anything like that

[chettc]

Dagnabbit.....


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That's better....

thank. good template