my friend wants to keep getting better, he said his goal will be able to pass a 7 pin, re-keyable industrial commercial lock, he thinks they have 2 standard pins, and 5 serrated security pins, have you any experience with these ones?
Every pin stack has multiple sheer lines to facilitate a change key. This actually makes it easier to pick the lock. I've only had one of them that would always pick to control instead of operating which was fun because usually control is a royal pain in the ass.
while he has nothing planned for a while, he has been frustrated in the past by the best re-keyables, he would like to be able to pass these within 5 minutes in the future
they are 7 pins and have very narrow key ways, he thinks it was best cores but took stanley keys?
Best, falcon, and a bunch of other manufactures make very similar interchangeable core locks. Stanley, Ilco, and a bunch of other manufactures make generic keys for these locks as well.
lol, my friend ordered the 20 piece southord, not bad but quite expensive for just a few pieces of thin metal
are the high priced 200 dollar pick sets worth it?
I started with buying 3 or 4 individaul picks from Southord and a few different tensioners. That lasted me a lot of locks until I needed slim and/or euro picks to get into locks with tighter keyways. Most of the large sets come with a bunch of stuff you'll almost never use.
Now I have spent a lot of money on a bunch of different kinds of picks and I have a code cutting machine. Still don't have a duplicator yet, but I haven't needed to make multiple copies of many keys lately. I like to buy locks without keys, pick them, gut them, then make keys for them.
Nope 200$ picksets are for rich kids who don't understand jack shit about picking, costumize your southord set instead or file your own picks out of springsteel. I'll post some guides regarding to this soon, but one of the best tips is to shrink tube the handles of your picks. Believe it or not this helps a lot. Re-keyable Locks are no different to manually pick than any other, the only difference is you can't use standard bumpkeys for obvious reasons. Instead of getting a 200$ pickset I would suggest to get a similar lock and mount for it, practice makes perfect
I've got the Peterson Phoenix Ultimate Government Steel set with plastic handles but I got it on a great deal from a member of a locksport forum. I had bought Peterson pry bars and a few individual spring steel picks. I really liked them and eventually broke or bent the spring steel ones and was looking at ordering some government steel ones when the deal on the set came up. I've got some stuff I didn't want/need but it's a great all around set and the deal was hard to pass up. The nice thing about it is that it's got a bunch of different hooks verses all of the weird stuff you find in Southord's larger sets.
Yup exactly the stuff you also use on wires.
These days I mostly use this as a tension wrench:
https://shop.multipick.com/en/opening--locksmith-tools/lock-picking--lock-manipulation/electric-picks--multipick-control/tension-tools/tension-ring/multipick-tnt-20?info=16764
As it allows me to apply tension/pressure way more precise, this is essential for some lock, also as you can see the tension hooks are much smaller than any wrench. Use what works best for you, although the twisted southord tension pick is one of my all-time favorites but that's just personal preference
That's some gimmicky junk. I love my Peterson pry bars for TOK or BOK tension. I also use the Southord standard twist wrenches a lot too but it only works for BOK tension. I probably have more tension tools than picks right now.
assuming this will be useful when you pick a lock and you did it in the wrong direction too, correct?
Not just picked it in the wrong direction, but sometimes a lock will pick way easier in one direction than the other so it sometimes is easier to pick it in the "wrong" direction and then spin it back the other way.
