So you need a set of picks and there are many available. As a beginner I would suggest you look for the following: A good range of picks and tension tools. Many beginners also have trouble holding picks so perhaps look at a set with handles, or consider getting a set of handles which you can slip onto your picks. Read the reviews and see what other customers have said. We are blessed with very honest customers who leave helpful feedback, so equip yourself with a good set of picks and you're ready to go.
I will add that cheap is not always cheerful, and you'll get a better quality small set than a larger set for a cheaper price.
Having taught literally s of people to pick locks I am still yet to find a better method than practice locks. Coming as both clear and cut-away, these are locks that allow you to see and understand the way a lock works, how the mechanism moves and how it responds to both the correct key and your lock picks.
Practice locks can be studied as you pick and you can later choose to cover them with a piece of tape, hiding the springs and pins and putting your newfound knowledge to the test. Raking is a technique everyone should learn.
It's quick, relatively simple to learn, and will have you opening locks in hours, if not minutes. Most people will learn to rake before they learn SPP as it's good for morale to see some locks opening quickly.
There are a variety of raking techniques, and there are a selection of tools. While most raking techniques can be tackled with some standard picks, there are some amazing sets of just rakes which I would definitely recommend to a beginner.
If an entire set is beyond your budget there are many individual rakes that are superb and definitely worth a look. If you're on a tight budget, when you're selecting your lock pick set and want to get involved with raking too - look for a set with a decent selection of rakes. A pick gun is an early essential as it gives you a very different approach to opening locks than SPP and raking. Pick Guns work by flicking a thin needle at the pins while you apply tension.
Because Pick Guns rely on the flicks of the needle, Electronic Pick Guns EPGs work better and faster than manual pick guns, although a decent manual pick gun is worth having in your collection.
Being a successful lock picker is all about having a variety of tools and techniques you can approach a lock with.
A bypass tool is opens locks in another way that doesn't tend to include manipulating the pins such as a pick gun, raking, or SPP does.
For instance, rather than picking a car door lock there's the Goldfinger and Air Wedges kit, which allows you to create a gap between the door and roof of the car to insert a rod, and then pull, push, or grab a handle. There's bypass tools that you slip right past the pins to engage the cam of the lock directly and others that work with the wheels of combination padlocks.
I would suggest a beginner start with a bypass tool like MICA. Prev 1 2 Next Page 1 of 2. Recommended Posts. Posted March 29, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Replies 20 Created 8 yr Last Reply 8 yr. Top Posters In This Topic 4 2 3 4.
Top Posters In This Topic Ayefno 4 posts kester 2 posts [email protected] 3 posts helen66 4 posts. Didn't know there was any specific laws about using lock picking tools. Guest Posted March 29, Billy Burglar out at any time of day with same tools would have a lot of explaining to do.
EMarsh 0 Posted March 29, I am interested to hear what the law is on this. Posted March 31, Posted April 1, Guest Posted April 1, Ayefno 0 Posted April 1, Use a lock picking set as fun? Not sure that would be reasonable excuse! Combined with almost any suspicious activity it would be a sure arrest. Ayefno 0 Posted April 2, Posted April 2, This topic is now closed to further replies.
Go to topic listing. Tell Us. Sign In Sign Up. The language is a little ambiguous. It seems it's meant to suggest that having a folding pocket knife with a blade less than 3 inches is allowed, but that is not actually said, only implied by contrast to the explicit statement that folding blades longer than 3" are prohibited. In a regulatory environment like the current UK, I don't like those kinds of rights being only ambiguously implied.
The guidelines go on to say that butter knives with no cutting edge and no points are considered prohibited blades under the law, which is ridiculous , and that folding pocket knives with blades less than 3" are not considered folding if they lock open because they are not "immediately foldable" , and are therefore prohibited.
Not impressed with this policy's risk assessment. Not true, you can carry lockpicks whenever you want. Buying, owning and possessing them is not a problem. It only becomes a problem if the cops find them on you and they had reasonable grounds to think you were going to use them.
This is the same for a crowbar, a screwdriver or a brick. The lockpicks themselves are fine. I don't think this is true. Your link seems to confirm that it is true?
JoeAltmaier on April 2, root parent next [—]. There are laws against possession of burglar tools in many localities. Just because there is a law doesn't mean it's a particularly well written or good law. That's what lawyers are for. The poster merely said "possession".
The poster said "possession WillyOnWheels on April 2, prev next [—]. Carrying a knife in NYC for any reason can lead to serious charges. AFAIK the ones that get people in trouble are "gravity knives" folding knives that can be flicked open. WillyOnWheels on April 2, root parent next [—]. The scary nearly foot long gravity knives that spawned the 50s NYC ban aren't sold anymore. The word "gravity knife" has slowly become any knife you are carrying seen by the NYPD. I am being slightly flippant but not really.
The law is completely ridiculous, there are tons of cases of brown people receiving prison terms because they were carrying a knife for work. There are actually a lot of stabbings in NYC daily, so politicians are not motivated to repeal or clean up the language in the gravity knife law.
In the ny state assembly and the ny state senate passed a bill to repeal the NYC gravity knife law, but Governor Cuomo vetoed it. This seems to be true in my experience. One of the undercover cops took the knife and repeatedly tried to get it to open due to gravity alone but couldn't. While he was doing this, the other one was questioning me: what do you use the knife for?
They gave it back to me and told me it's best if I keep it inside my pocket instead of clipped to it. Even though that ended OK for me, there are a bunch of ways it could have gone worse. If either cop was an asshole, or having a bad day, or if I had darker skin, or was wearing a hoodie, etc. I once read about someone getting locked up overnight despite his knife being legal because he had it clipped to his pocket - the visible clip was deemed by the police in that instance to constitute "brandishing a weapon".
Not sure if that's true, but probably best not to take chances. In many US states, having a lockpick set without being a licensed locksmith is illegal, and you can be charged with a felony.
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