Bicycle Spoke Picks?!?

[vector40]

Could be worse. I met a guy a few days ago who collects skulls. Apparently if you start something like that, you'll instantly become everyone's "skull guy," and any skulls people run across will be passed your way. I guess just about everyone has this surplus of skeletal matter they're trying to get rid of. Maybe there's a phrenologist's union that would like them.

[illusion]

Hey!

I can't say mine were very good, but i made my first set using bike spokes...
here's the link http://www.lockpicking101.com/viewtopic.php?t=9253&highlight=

They have served me well, I did however modify them since- third one from the top is now a ball pick, and the bottom one is now a thinner hook pick... i think i'm happy with them now

Hope this helps - and good luck if anyone decides to make their own

[Fallacy911]

you can just use a hacksaw blade that is already the right thickness.

In my experience with hacksaw picks i had to grind the sides down profoundly in order to make a decent pick.

[treboR]

you can just use a hacksaw blade that is already the right thickness.

In my experience with hacksaw picks i had to grind the sides down profoundly in order to make a decent pick.

I think you are talking about width instead of thickness. Hacksaw blades are very thin.

[sivlogkart]

I think you are talking about width instead of thickness. Hacksaw blades are very thin.

Hacksaw blades also make picks that carefully used will last forever. Bicycle spokes last very well, but do slowly round off a bit with use, which is ok for some pick shapes but a bigger problem for other shaper pick shapes.

So I consider which sort of pick shape I want before I choose the material I will make it out of. Hacksaw blades are much slower to shape.

[derekarcher]

bike spokes are all i use eney more alls i do is take a pare of plyers and cut the spoks of an old bike at a junk yard or or something ok you take them and put them on a anvil or a hammer and hit them with a hammer to flatten the end out about an inch down then find a bench grinder with a sharp corner on it so you can make deep angels and dont let them get hot at all every 15 seconds or so dip them in water to keep them from heating up and runing the temper if they get to hot (glowing) just grind that part of cauls it will be veary brittle there and after you are done grinding take 600 grit sand paper avalible at most hardware stores or a automotive store used to sand the body of a car,truck pryer to panting and wet sand the pick wet sanding is when you keep the paper soked in water to floot the metal partickels and you should get a polished surface and for the handel use the telaphone cable or the left or right audio video cabel on the and old speaker or tv and it should stay on there all by it self if not put a strip of elctlicle tape also and eney avalable hardware store

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[treboR]

bike spokes are all i use eney more alls i do is take a pare of plyers and cut the spoks of an old bike at a junk yard or or something ok you take them and put them on a anvil or a hammer and hit them with a hammer to flatten the end out about an inch down then find a bench grinder with a sharp corner on it so you can make deep angels and dont let them get hot at all every 15 seconds or so dip them in water to keep them from heating up and runing the temper if they get to hot (glowing) just grind that part of cauls it will be veary brittle there and after you are done grinding take 600 grit sand paper avalible at most hardware stores or a automotive store used to sand the body of a car,truck pryer to panting and wet sand the pick wet sanding is when you keep the paper soked in water to floot the metal partickels and you should get a polished surface and for the handel use the telaphone cable or the left or right audio video cabel on the and old speaker or tv and it should stay on there all by it self if not put a strip of elctlicle tape also and eney avalable hardware store

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[Chrispy]

The lack of commas and full stops, makes it an interesting post to read out loud. Try it. Read the entire post without stopping and without taking a breath. Good, clean fun.

[SFGOON]

Don't look so shocked Robert, I live in Kansas right now and I know what you people are like. I think I saw that kid the other day hanging out at Wal-Mart, he was wearing a NASCAR T-shirt with a huge hole in it, cutoff camo shorts, a baseball cap witha fishhook on it, and he was chewing tobacco with his little sister.

[Chrispy]

[treboR]

Don't look so shocked Robert, I live in Kansas right now and I know what you people are like. I think I saw that kid the other day hanging out at Wal-Mart, he was wearing a NASCAR T-shirt with a huge hole in it, cutoff camo shorts, a baseball cap witha fishhook on it, and he was chewing tobacco with his little sister.

I may live in Kansas, but I consider myself nothing more than a spectator.