Worked the Pick-Fu on an American woo hoo!

[sublime progie]

I picked my american for the first time ever today. I am extreamly excited about it if you can't tell. This is the hardest lock i have picked to date. This faces me with the delima of trying to find my next lock once i have this one down, but i am still super stoked.

Anyways, I am sure this thread won't go anywhere and it will be deleted soon, but i had to post it.

[Chucklz]

Try another American. I find these locks give me no end of grief. Alot of them really aren't even fun... just cruel. Especially when they are "just" 4 pin locks. Best of luck to you.

[sublime progie]

don't get me wrong. I had alot of blood shed trying to pick this stupid thing. I have been trying at least one session a day for like two months. then i guess something clicked (no pun intended) and I can pick it now. sometimes really quick. I dont know if i want to try another one anyway. this one made me mad enough .

[raimundo]

did ya oil it and use your smallest picks?

[devildog]

I was going to say, I cheat--WD-40

[n2oah]

Was it pinned as hard as this? All of the lower pins are serrated, too


I am working on some tough locks, too. One that has the same keyway as a Mul-t-Lock, it is not pin-in-pin, but it has 7 mushroom pins
I am also working on a real Mul-t-Lock that I took a couple of pins out of. All of the top outer pins are serrated on it.

[sublime progie]

I used a little but of graphite to help get the pins to unbind a little easier. It seems like you would almost have to with this lock though because with the force that they unbind when i pick it resets everything.

I think master did a good job of making a lock that whenever a locksmith comes up on a job with one, or i guess a thief, they can all but hold back a whimper......... and the urge to take a sledge to it.

oh yeah, good news is that i picked it again the day after. sometimes I can pick a lock one day and then never again. that would have made me

[sublime progie]

sorry for the double post

I cant see your picture n2oah, but i can tell you i think all of my bottom pins are serrated. and more or less it is pinned hi low. Not severly i guess but the cuts are 47276.

[n2oah]

My pic had a pic of one of the American cutaways I made. It had 2 spools, 1 serrated spool, and 2 serrrated drivers Most Americans have 2-3 spools. I've sucessfully picked it without looking at the pins.

[sublime progie]

yeah i would guess it is pinned as hard. I know that it had some full bible serated pins, and i assume that it had at least one spool because of the 5-10 degree turn.