actually in the real quote its the other way around: “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” So you had the right spirit but the wrong execution.
Visited. Saw the bridge railings and gates near the river wearing armors of locks. Armors of amors you could say, because it seems like lovers put a lock for themselves on something permanent and throw the keys into the river.
That tradition is actually causing big problems. The locks, after enough of them are added, weigh down on the particular bridge; some of those locks rust easily, which can cause adjacent locks and even the bridge to rust also; and it's a fucking played out, unoriginal idea that stopped being cute after the first dozen or so locks were put on a bridge.
Seems like this is a thing in multiple countries, we have that in Germany too, and yes, they do actually add up to a lot of weight on a pretty long bridge.
Being a recently disabled man who has had to give up EVERY hobby and type of work I had learned, (there were several), I think I am going to look into lockpickong as something I can pick up and put down as my various issues pop up throu ghout my days and weeks. Thanks, LPL.
@Herbert Wingfield I see 8 thumbs-up so I'm going to go with a response of "8 people got my obscure quip , Herbert. Thanks for asking." Actually I think someone had left a related comment too but it is gone now.
Why can't you? Is there someone chasing you out. Looks like this gentleman enjoys this. Sounds like you're spending time doing something you don't. BTW, when some around you have moved on to endeavors that actually improved their life over time, IF you haven't, you'll probably know why. Just sayin".
A "loose" pin has no resistance when you push up on it with the pick; you're looking for the "binding" pin, which is simply the pin that has the most resistance when you push up on it.
Here’s a great video demonstrating the basics of lockpicking using a clear plastic core for demonstration purposes: ua-cam.com/video/cjuT_63Ioig/v-deo.html The bobby pins are kind of silly, but the concept is still the same when you use real tools.
Think devine means for newer visitors or ones looking to get educated, no him himself. There are countless people who watch lockpicking lawyers videos who dont care about locks lockpicking or anything else related to the channel, would be neat for him to leave a link at the top of the desc for new viewers to get educated and possibly stick around
Outstanding theory. I teach a particular set of topics in an industry overflowing with "experts," who have absolutely mastered a singular tool and hammer UA-cam with their videos. The problem is, they are essentially, "one trick ponies." The repeatedly use the same tool(s) and only marginally change the circumstance they apply them in. It makes for great footage but doesn't really "teach." A new person to the topic will benefit most when they are guided towards an understanding of the bigger context. How to do that? Offer a more diverse set of tools and situations. He'll then build a more universal understanding/ experience so they can then apply that accumulated knowledge to everyday success. Thank you for reminding me about how to learn my new interest; if even briefly.
Thanks for the kind words. We all fall into our comfort zone, an resist expanding our abilities. I'm there right now in my picking, and still haven't decided which uncharted (for me) waters to explore next.
Took me many years to convince myself the best place to be comfortable is in the Uncomfortable Zone. And I still have to remind myself several times a day on most days. But LPL couldn't be more right!!!!!
Kaitlyn Simpson keep your eye open. They do crop up. Picked up a good assortment of over 50 locks the other day for around $2 each. Some are little beat up but they all work and if, like me, you do this both for fun and for legal job applications, practising on locks that aren’t factory fresh is a good thing.
@@adamwest8711 hey man. Ive been looking on eBay for weeks now and the cheapest I can get to is $4 each. What keywords are you using or what other website are you using. If you could help I would be very thankful.
I occasionally drop by the storage facilities where people rent areas to store their extra stuff. If they're behind in their payments, the company just cuts the locks off. They'll often sell me a bucket of cut-off locks for a few dollars (basically what they could get for them as scrap metal). Sure, most of them are easy Master locks, but you'll generally get a handful of decent ones as well. Be ready for the "what are you going to use them for" question: I explain the general concept of locksport to them, and most of them are satisfied with that. Note, once I was late on a payment and they went to cut my locks off, but their boltcutters weren't capable of cutting a quality hasp.
You make excellent picking videos. Easily some of the best on UA-cam. However, you make even better instructional videos! Make more! The more the better! You have a very specific style, and it is quite different than the general methods (i.e. "MIT Guide to Lockpicking", light tension & binding order, etc.) I'd love to see instructional videos about any and all of your methods!!
I think this applies to learning a new skill in general. For years, I made the mistake of thinking that playing a difficult (for me) song on the piano and mastering it would make me better in general. But it doesn't work like that. You can pick up some mechanical skills from an individual song, but pretty soon, your mind starts learning how to get from one note to the next instead of "generalizing" the movement. That's why every song was just as difficult to learn as the last since I learned songs and not techniques. Learning locks instead of lockpicking is a valuable perspective. Thanks for pointing that out.
Excellent points! Rotation of locks is key to functional practice. I agree E Bay is a source of inexpensive locks. I have found locks for $2-3 dollars.
I'm new to lockpicking.. like BRAND new. I just received my lock pick kit today. Already picked my front and rear door locks, and a random masterlock. All because of your videos. Thank you! Time to find more locks!
Dear LockPickingLawyer, thank you for your introduction video of your "how to learn pickin" practice. Your honesty, your dignity to this hobby and your openness towards new skills as well as sharing that knowledge - my deep respect, trank you too and as always, have a nice day!
I think this is spot on. I consider myself a beginner, coming to this hobby after idly dabbling 25 years ago & losing interest. Now I'm older and a shocking hoarder, I've already built up a crate of random locks. Many are the transparent training ones but some are production. I'm sticking with pin tumblers for now but have bought some dimple locks etc for when I get more advanced. Within my collection I do exactly as you have suggested here. Pick one, move on, and I'm already finding myself improving. I would add that immersing myself in videos such as yours and Bosnian Bill's, while way out of my league with techniques & terminology, helps to bathe me in the culture, styles, enjoyment and frustration to come. Thank you!
This just a perfect new found hobby for me. !!! I am a retired carpenter and have a lot of time now, I would prefer to do small shop woodworking projects but my back won't allow it,, I love a challenge and have a lot of patience, and I can do this sitting down at my workbench. I can't wait to get started with this. !!! Thank you Sir. !!!! Watching your videos really inspired me. !!! You are just awesome!!!! 😎✌i
This video was the inspiration to buy an eBay buy that has kept me going for a while. I bought about 40 locks, I go through and then gut and replace the pins. I need to buy another lot of locks, as my skill is increasing and can bust through my 40 locks pretty quickly. All together I bought $100 of locks and 20 dollars in pins. That 120 has gone a hell of a long way in not only picking knowledge but also gutting, switching the pins out, and making the locks harder to pick, not only by using security pins but tricks like a really short pin behind a really long pin. It's been a blast and it is a bit of an obsession at this point. Thanks LPL
This is exactly the approach to use for becoming better at solving math or science problems: you don't practice the same problem over and over again - or even twice in a row, for that matter. You pick a topic (= type of lock), such as solving and plotting quadratic equations (picking tubular locks) and work at one after the other. Thanks for discussing this important fundamental principle of learning as it applies to lock picking, LPL!
Excellent thoughts. I am attempting the same method albeit on a smaller scale and totally agree something like this is necessary to avoid being overconfident in your skills by becoming familiar with a small selection of locks. Great video. Cheers
Fantastic! This idea of "mixed practice" sometimes called "interleaving" has good support in educational/psychological research and seems to be strongly tied to flexibility, retention of deeper skills, and creativity. It applies to almost all learning. Very cool.
i know you mean watch a movie in your house, but it's fun to me to imagine movie usher: "sir? what is this?" LPL:" it's my lock belt, I always practice picking when I watch a movie" MU: "?????????????"
This is some really good advice. I myself take is a step further. I don't buy a whole lot of locks. Instead I find them. Literally on the side of the road. You might be surprised about how many you might find. People forget to lock them up or set them on their trailers and they just fall of after a period of time. The locks themselves are usually scratched up. Sometimes they are broken, but majority of the time they are just fine. As a note I'm not condoning walking into traffic just to get a hunk of metal. I advise people to be safe when making your own decisions. Cheers!
Very good advice. I've become very good at several different skills in my life. I refrain from saying "mastered" because I think that is not possible. There will always be something out there that you haven't encountered. Felling timber (logging) is one. I've felled many thousands of trees in my life. I've also climbed them and taken them down over multi million dollar homes and transmission lines working as an aborist. None are the same. None. When you set your saw into an individual tree it is the thousands of others that you have felled that tell you how to fell that one. Adding the risk of dying to the equation justs ups the anty. I was also a licenced plumber for 15 years. Now, a lot of people will scoff at that because they don't know what it takes to get there. Good for them. I've never killed a family by improperly venting a boiler or water heater. There is so much stuff to learn in plumbing that no one person could ever know all of it. I think our brains store this stuff, not on the top, but it is there and is accessed when we need it. I think you are spot on with your lock picking practice and I've never picked a lock in my life besides sliding a credit card through the front door of my house when I locked myself out. I hadn't locked the deadbolt. I enjoy your videos immensely. Hats off to you.
love your comment, very true 👍👍 stay save logging.. i heard it's one of the most dangerous jobs out there. i read about logging accidents all the time in the news
Great info! I don't own much locks, but I'm blessed with a local locksmith that lend me lots of stuff, so at one point, I was doing the same, getting 5-10 different lock a week, picking them, bringing them back and so forth! Helped me a lot.
Hi LPL, I started watching your vids through interest & what I’ve learnt from your vids came to good use today when I forgot the keys to my tool chest & was able to pick the locks to access my tools. 👍 Thanks LPL
Excellent, this is why I subscribe to your channel, for these lateral thinking gems that you put out from time to time. I find that your slightly different approach very enlightening. Thanks Mike
I dont remember how I came acrossed your videos, but UA-cam must know me better than I know myself cause it really peaked my interest. It would of never even dawned on me people picked locks for a hobby. Now I'm going to try and learn myself. I've watched alot of your videos now and really enjoy them. I enjoy your voice and manner of speaking too it's very calming. You're like the Bob Ross of lock picking. 😂 in any case thanks for making these videos and sharing with the world.
I appreciate this video and the practice methods it recommends. Unfortunately I don't have much money to buy locks and I only have 3 right now. What I've been doing after learning a lock is using the different types of picking tool to pick it again. It definitely changes the difficulty and I hope it makes me a better picker in the long run.
Great idea, well executed. It's exactly the opposite approach to starting with one repinnable lock. You can vary the pins but the natural binding order will always be the same.
Thanks. Like I said in the video, everyone seems to have a different approach to picking and practice, and some people swear by those purpose-built practice locks. That said, I think that you zeroed right in on one of the two main weaknesses of them... the binding order (though that can be changed with security pins) and the fact that it can be a royal PITA to repin the lock dozens of times per practice session.
Probably watched dozens of your videos and just noticed that I wasn’t even subscribed. Made sure I subbed this time. Thanks for your informative videos. This hobby is useful for developing my concentration, patience and problem solving skills.
I think your advice in this video translates very well into other skills, for example playing the piano. If you just play the same song, you may learning how to play that song, but not how to play the piano.
I have a carabiner full of locks. I go through each lock as if it was the first time and in random order. I’m also always adding to my collection. Thanks for validating my efforts! Keep up the great work... 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼
When I first started getting into lock picking, are used to take coffee at 7 to 10 at a local restaurant. I would take a lock or two down there and practice. Pretty soon my friends, were bringing in locs. Usually without keys. This had the effect of making me a fairly good Universal picker.
Thank you ! Very good advice. I have a series of locks that I have picked so many times I could open them all now with a paper clip and a Bobby pin. I can't afford a ton of locks to practice, and shipping costs too much for the bargains I find on ebay. So what I do, is I have a dozen practice locks, and a couple re-pinning kits, and I just keep changing the pinning on them. But that only works with pin tumblers.
Another great video. I think most pickers tend to get 'stale', they get hung up or frustrated occasionally, these type videos are a very helpful tool, help regain some focus and concentration and relax, like a fresh start. This helps me to allay some frustration sometimes, it's a 'feel good' thing. Thanks for sharing ;-)
I totally agree with this philosophy of learning. I taught music in the same way. I was a guitar teacher but what I was actually trying to teach was understanding the music and how to engage with it using the instrument, not just how to memorise what finger to put where. If you understand what's happening and why then you can come up with different approaches from other challenges, and blend things, without just copy and pasting from elsewhere.
I 100% agree, the 1 point I would add is that is when you pick the same style of lock(not the same lock)you can pick useful techniques like tension amounts.
After buying a Sparrow lock picking set and a dummy plastic lock, I find what you said to be correct. I've picked that training lock several times, and an old Master lock a few times. I've also found that tension is much more important than picking. Thanks for your heart of a teacher, and keep up the great videos. I also equate locks to that of law, just because you're good at one type of law, doesn't mean that you're good at all of them.
I learned from betrayal at Krondor. Computer game from the 90's. I wonder if the lockpicking lawyer can pick a Webber lock. If anyone can do it, it's him!
That's a great point, I recently bought a lock picking set and instead of picking the same practice lock over and over again, I went to my door and picked that, then I went to my car door and picked that, then I went to the neighbors door and picked that and the neighbor's neighbor's door and so on. Now I'm typing this while on probation, it was worth every lock I picked and screaming lady I encountered. I am a better lock picker now.
"I also have a lock picking club I go to once a week, where I sit around with the boys, drink beers, and pick locks while talking about whatever lock pickers talk about. We're meeting at my house next week and I'm ordering pizzas.... jokes on them though, I'm putting locks on the boxes (don't ask me how) and they get nasty luke warm/cold pizza if they can't solve it fast enough. Ah, I love lock picking club!"
Just started picking and went back into your video catalog and this video really helped. In just one day I got noticably better from just picking through multiple locks in a single session. Thanks!
Its a great hobby. I've been practicing on some locks, on my own door in the appartment complex and a flatmate wondered if I could pick his lock. Took some time because, like you said: it was new and I picked the same locks for giggles. But I managed and my flatmate got kinda scared. Assured him its just a COVID lockdown hobby. The patience required, a calm mind and learning the feeling of a set pin... its great!
I bought a beginners lockpicking set a few years back, but it quickly ended up on my shelf. I watched a lot of YT videos about lockpicking back then, so when I recieved it I was already sure what to do. Still I sat down, to carefully read the manual that was included. The set consisted of 5 locks, each lock scaling up the number of pins (1 to 5 pins). I easily opened the 1st and 2nd, but then I got stuck. The pins just didn't behave like I thought they would. Sometimes I could feel them, sometimes I couldn't, sometimes they would have force behind them, sometimes they would just hang loose. I watched more UA-cam videoes, trying to get answers to my problems but nothing helped. I kept "practicing" but I never really felt that I improved. I tried altering the amount of tension on the tension wrench, the amount of force on the pick, the different types of picks, but nothing helped. Sometimes I would get a lock open by luck, but when I tried to replicate my method a second after, I would be stuck for 10 minutes before giving up. Most of the time I would quickly reach a point, where all the pins where either completely pushed up, or hanging loosely. At this point I couldn't think of anything but releasing the tension, which made me start over every 10-30 seconds perhaps. I wasn't expecting it to be easy, but I was expecting to feel a senge of progression. I never did. I feel as useless a lockpicker now, as before. Once in a while I take the set down again, dust it off, and give it another go. But then the feeling of getting nowhere returns. I don't know what to do. This is my set: ht tps:/ /w ww.southord.co m/produ cts/locksmith-school-in-a-box-st-23
What you say makes a lot of sense because each lock is different even if you encounter five of the same locks they're going to have a different pin set inside so they're going to be picked a little bit differently. So thank you for this it is really helpful
you know this is exactly the same way you teach a machine-learning algorithm to classify data. If you give it one data set and make it learn it over and over again, it will learn that very well but wont generalize. On the other hand, if you have hundreds if not thousands of datasets you make your model generalize to most datasets. Interesting video.
I just started learning lock picking. I lost my job and I'm looking for new skills to improve myself with. Knowing I'm naturally heavy handed when it comes to a lot of things. This is very difficult for me to adjust to. The practice lock i got with the set i can pick rather easily now. Nothing like the masters. But I struggle immensely on doorknob locks and deadbolts around the house. Like i learned here. I'm moving from lock to lock trying to figure things out and control my heavy handedness. Big struggle on my part. But the satisfaction of getting that pick after many failures is worth it. I hope to eventually make it to at least half LPL level. Just gotta stick with it. P.S Thank you for all your helpful and entertaining videos. Always enjoy watching new and old.
The first 1 minute is one of the Most Profound on UA-cam. Life Lesson for sure !!!!! Don't get comfortable, don't get in a rut. Keep learning, Don't be a zombie through life.
Thanks for the video. I appreciate your channel for remembering things that other channels don’t touch on. This video and the one you did focussing just on tension techniques were both really good watching for anyone but particularly for those who are still pretty new.
Thanks for this great video. Your fantastic skills proof that you are right with this kind of workflow. You have more locks in one Set you showed, then I have in my whole collection. ;-) Of we go to ebay.
I worked for the automobile association and certain cars have to be picked, due to dead locking. I found that as I only had one vw lock that pulling it apart and changing the waffer order helped to give a new lock feel. Not a complete answer to problem but did vary it.
After watching you an BosnianBill I decided to give this a try. I purchased some inexpensive picks on Banggood and got to work. I have picked every lock in my home. Some were easy, some not so. I've ordered more picks in .0015" since some of the wardings are a little tight. I also found a deal for Master lock No1 locks with extended shackles still in the box at $5.00 each so I bought 30 of them. Today I found an outfit on Alibaba selling tubular locks for $.30 each plus freight with a minimum purchase of 1 unit. I'm going to have a look on EBay to see what I can find there. And yes, this is getting expensive but it is also challenging so I'm having fun.
This is a very interesting approach, and it makes sense to not get stuck into a pattern or used to a way a specific lock works. Thanks for a great video (still, years later)! Unfortunately for me, where I live, it's really difficult to access that amount of locks for a reasonable price, so collecting this variety of a type of lock would take me a long time. On average used locks sell for 10-20 dollars, and high quality ones are often above 50. Not that that will stop me of course. All the best!
I realize I am commenting on an old video, but thank you for making this. This is a great approach and is giving me a lot of good ideas. I am new to picking but old to following the hobby. I have seen almost all your videos and Bills videos. I have been buying used lock lots on eBay because right now it is a cheap way to get 5 or more locks, but I love the idea to resale them, I think I am going to do just that.
Hi Harry, Been away, have just seen your video, and it does make a lot of sense. Continually picking the one lock doesn't really advance your skills, but rotating many locks at random is the way to go. Excellent advice, thanks for putting it out there. Regards, Brian.
Thanks... In other news, I may have a BiLock video soon. Last night I received a 1st generation (I think) BiLock KIK cylinder without a key. Opened it in about 15 minutes! I was pretty happy with that for a blind pick, considering how much trouble the one you sent me has been. I didn't have much time to play with it, but I'm cautiously optimistic. Maybe all the time I have spent playing with the lock you sent is paying off. We will see soon enough.
@@Uocjat If you instead go case-sensitive, base-62, encoded with all the lower-case letters first, then the upper-case, then "Yes" works out to 231536 decimal.
That's sage advice right there if I've never heard another example anywhere else. Could apply this logic to quite a few things and come out ahead there too.
I know it’s seven months late, but if you’re asking how master keys work generally each pin is split in two places (creating three pieces) so that there are two valid heights at which it will allow the core to turn. One set of heights will be the same across all the locks, corresponding to the master key, and the other set will be different for each lock, corresponding to the key that can only open that lock
Thanks for the tip. Just started picking YESTERDAY when my practice lock arrived. Since then been looking all over the house for padlocks and will buy some online!
Can you recommend any locks or training locks that would be available in the UK that can be re-pinned for practising different configurations without having to keep buying locks all the time? Plus, where I could get pins of varying types and security levels to use in said lock? Thanks.
Sorry, I'm not familiar enough with locks in the UK to make a recommendation. As for security pins, when I use commercial security pins, I usually get them from clksupplies.com ... not sure if they ship overseas.
I'm also in the UK, there's a great Canadian lock picking company called Sparrows that ship to the UK (postage cost about a fiver for me) and they sell a repinnable brass practice lock with a window into the lock body to see the pins which is great for practice. They also sell a 'reload kit' which includes loads of security pins and springs etc with all the stuff you need to repin a lock. All in all it cost me about £35 with postage and it's been great for helping me practice
I got my first picks and a transparent practice lock from UKbumpkeys.com. They have a wide variety of locks and prices including repinnable locks which come with a box full of pins and springs for you to fiddle with. (The cheaper locks can probably also be repinned but you'd need to put some work in to access and then resecure them, not sure if the payoff is worth it.) They also have reduced prices on various items, it's the one site I've signed up for the (rare) news mailings and I've not regretted it. Only complaint I have is that the first lock I bought was far too easy to open with a simple rock & rake, which gave me a false sense of how easy a hobby this is, but it is marketed as a starter lock so has no security features; going back to first principles and doing some SPP helped me get my money's worth out of it. Another good source for practice locks is friends and work colleagues. I found some old padlocks at work that we'd lost the keys for so could never use, and have been happily playing with them for a while now; this really helps you learn how to approach a lock blind, work out how many pins or wafers it has, etc.
Solid info bud! This is a gem of a non picking instructional video on UA-cam. The analogy in the back of my mind has always been that these locks are a kin to easy chicks from the bar... lol, hit it once or twice and be done. But I've never thought about having a harem to randomly pick through ;^)
Deviant Ollam has stated that he has some locks he actually does this with. Not the good locks for stuff that needs to be really secure, but he has some he uses in less critical applications, where it's more about tamper evidence or even just needing to technically count as "locked", where he threw away the keys years ago, but kept the locks, because picking/raking them is easier than messing with the actual key.
I had a car once that was quicker to open with a coat hanger than the actual key. Especially in the winter. I used the key anyway. Too many questions the other way.
@@ceoyoyo I can imagine- “Hey, what are you doing?” *starts calling police* “Breaking into my car.” “You’re locked out?” “No.” “Then why are you breaking in?” “It’s faster to pick it.”
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I just say "This is the lock picking lawyer" and locks pop open.
Works every time.
has tried, can confirm
holy shit i've been trying to open this 5 pin master lock no. 1 for hours and the moment I said that the lock popped
am I doing it wrong? mine don't open until I say "and what I have for you today"?
jemsncrystals 😂
i just say "i dont really know whats keeping this closed" and after 3 seconds its open
”I fear not the man who has practiced picking one lock 10,000 times, but I fear the man who has practiced picking 10,000 different locks.”
actually in the real quote its the other way around: “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
So you had the right spirit but the wrong execution.
@@jesse578 I think he knows and he purposely reversed it so that it would apply to lockpicking.
Nerd.
LMAO Bruce Lee the lock picker
@@jesse578 nerd
@@jesse578 ackshuallulyyy
Oh you must be a joy at the movie theater with your carabiner of locks
At home...
haha yeah I can imaging someone walking in a movie theater with their massive clanking ring of locks, then minutes later is escorted out.
whats all that clanging?!?! Sounds like a freaking cat burglar!!!!!
you could superglue locks together so they don't clang :D
Aawhahahhaaa, I hope the lawyer didn’t get upset - love the passion!
I can imagine being mrs.Lawyer and watching a movie and hearing "little click out of 1, 2 is binding, click out of 2"
I'd be more worried when they go out, he has two hundredweight of locks in his pockets, backpack etc
"This is the skillet wielding wife, and what I have for you today is a cracked skull if you don't quit binding and clicking during chick flicks..."
@@MadScientist267 HAHAHAHAHA!
I wonder if he has ever picked a chastity belt?
@@peepingmig He did boyo
If you live in Paris, there's multiple bridge with thousand and thousands of locks
Visited. Saw the bridge railings and gates near the river wearing armors of locks. Armors of amors you could say, because it seems like lovers put a lock for themselves on something permanent and throw the keys into the river.
That tradition is actually causing big problems. The locks, after enough of them are added, weigh down on the particular bridge; some of those locks rust easily, which can cause adjacent locks and even the bridge to rust also; and it's a fucking played out, unoriginal idea that stopped being cute after the first dozen or so locks were put on a bridge.
They removed the locks from the bridges after one of the railings fell down into a river and almost hit a boat because the locks were so heavy
@@alexk6839 sounds like the government would actually appreciate you picking and taking the locks then.
Seems like this is a thing in multiple countries, we have that in Germany too, and yes, they do actually add up to a lot of weight on a pretty long bridge.
Being a recently disabled man who has had to give up EVERY hobby and type of work I had learned, (there were several), I think I am going to look into lockpickong as something I can pick up and put down as my various issues pop up throu ghout my days and weeks. Thanks, LPL.
From the sound of it you could also become a lawyer.
Good luck going through this!
@@RoamingAdhocrat the thought has crossed my mind over the years. Thanks for the kind words, they are appreciated.
@@thatrealba I'm from the future, how has lockpicking been for you
BA Hey man, Idk if you ended up doing it, but good luck. Hope you find something that gives new meaning to your life 😃
@@Cynsham not yet, but hopefully soon. Too much going on atm for anything new haha. And thanks!
"Nothing on two.... little click out of three... Thanos has another infinity stone... nice deep false set on four...."
"SHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
peterthinks underrated comment
@@scooterdosh777 it's only underrated because the likes are at 666
This has got to be one of the best UA-cam comments I've ever seen
incredible comment my friend
Besides being a expert at lock picking, but also an expert at eBay bargain hunting?
Damn, good trait good sir.
Don't forget that he also passed the Bar to become a lawyer.
100 Lockpicking, 90 Speechcraft.
He’s also a UA-cam with millions of subscribers 🤯
i use my lockpicking skills to get the best bargain of them all: 100% off
I have the opposite problem. I got about 200 keys and 0 locks.
Then learn how to pick a key... duh
Keymaster, I believe Zuul is looking for you.
@Herbert Wingfield I see 8 thumbs-up so I'm going to go with a response of "8 people got my obscure quip , Herbert. Thanks for asking." Actually I think someone had left a related comment too but it is gone now.
NoMoreTagsLeft I was going to say that it really isn’t that obscure a reference, then I remembered what year it is... This getting old lark isn’t fun.
@IamMe Someone is always discovering something new on good old UA-cam.
Me) what you up to?
Him ) Netflix and lock-picking
Me) yeah same
Guess no lock is strong enough either
netpicks and chill
hello Saitama watcup doin'?
if i could only have a quarter of his dedication at the gym...
Just do what he does with locks and just do one rep of every machine in the gym and go home. 😂😂😂
Just start going to the gym
Go to the gym at night time.. pick your way in and out... kill two birds with one stone.
There are a ton of locks to practice on over at the gym. Is that what you meant? :P
Why can't you? Is there someone chasing you out. Looks like this gentleman enjoys this. Sounds like you're spending time doing something you don't. BTW, when some around you have moved on to endeavors that actually improved their life over time, IF you haven't, you'll probably know why. Just sayin".
Can you please make a video explaining the terms you use in your videos like “false set” what it means when a pin is “loose” etc. just an idea
A "loose" pin has no resistance when you push up on it with the pick; you're looking for the "binding" pin, which is simply the pin that has the most resistance when you push up on it.
Here’s a great video demonstrating the basics of lockpicking using a clear plastic core for demonstration purposes: ua-cam.com/video/cjuT_63Ioig/v-deo.html
The bobby pins are kind of silly, but the concept is still the same when you use real tools.
Think devine means for newer visitors or ones looking to get educated, no him himself. There are countless people who watch lockpicking lawyers videos who dont care about locks lockpicking or anything else related to the channel, would be neat for him to leave a link at the top of the desc for new viewers to get educated and possibly stick around
This is a great thread - Following!
I agree! All these videos and nothing on the basic basics like terms, etc.
Outstanding theory. I teach a particular set of topics in an industry overflowing with "experts," who have absolutely mastered a singular tool and hammer UA-cam with their videos. The problem is, they are essentially, "one trick ponies." The repeatedly use the same tool(s) and only marginally change the circumstance they apply them in. It makes for great footage but doesn't really "teach." A new person to the topic will benefit most when they are guided towards an understanding of the bigger context. How to do that? Offer a more diverse set of tools and situations. He'll then build a more universal understanding/ experience so they can then apply that accumulated knowledge to everyday success. Thank you for reminding me about how to learn my new interest; if even briefly.
Thanks for the kind words. We all fall into our comfort zone, an resist expanding our abilities. I'm there right now in my picking, and still haven't decided which uncharted (for me) waters to explore next.
Took me many years to convince myself the best place to be comfortable is in the Uncomfortable Zone. And I still have to remind myself several times a day on most days. But LPL couldn't be more right!!!!!
@@nothankyou5524 a year later...and this is the series of comments that makes me take the plunge into single bevel knives. So thanks for that
Huge waste of money buying locks, people just leave these things everywhere: sheds, lockers, luggage
@@croxion you aren't looking hard enough just go into the neighbors back yards you'll find at least 1 a neighborhood (at least in the suburbs)
I actually laughed out load reading this. :-D
@Etcetera idk about you but the areas I've lived have plenty of locks
@@croxion Check white houses and sheds near a black neighbourhood
Hahahahaha.
Excellent idea. Excellent points. Time to find the bargains.
Thanks, and good luck... just don't bid against me!
LOL ~
The bargains, they are all gone!
Kaitlyn Simpson keep your eye open. They do crop up. Picked up a good assortment of over 50 locks the other day for around $2 each. Some are little beat up but they all work and if, like me, you do this both for fun and for legal job applications, practising on locks that aren’t factory fresh is a good thing.
@@adamwest8711 hey man.
Ive been looking on eBay for weeks now and the cheapest I can get to is $4 each. What keywords are you using or what other website are you using.
If you could help I would be very thankful.
I occasionally drop by the storage facilities where people rent areas to store their extra stuff. If they're behind in their payments, the company just cuts the locks off. They'll often sell me a bucket of cut-off locks for a few dollars (basically what they could get for them as scrap metal). Sure, most of them are easy Master locks, but you'll generally get a handful of decent ones as well. Be ready for the "what are you going to use them for" question: I explain the general concept of locksport to them, and most of them are satisfied with that. Note, once I was late on a payment and they went to cut my locks off, but their boltcutters weren't capable of cutting a quality hasp.
What did you use?
What did I use for what?
Your quality hasp lock?
I was an American lock, from before they got bought by Master.
You make excellent picking videos. Easily some of the best on UA-cam. However, you make even better instructional videos! Make more! The more the better! You have a very specific style, and it is quite different than the general methods (i.e. "MIT Guide to Lockpicking", light tension & binding order, etc.) I'd love to see instructional videos about any and all of your methods!!
Thanks... I have a few more ideas for some unique/fresh instructional content. Stay tuned.
@@lockpickinglawyer :P
@@redwarrior2963 :P
@@arthur-1290 :P
@@cursedharold4475 :P
This is like a professional athlete going through their routine
Yup. Major dedication
I think this applies to learning a new skill in general. For years, I made the mistake of thinking that playing a difficult (for me) song on the piano and mastering it would make me better in general. But it doesn't work like that. You can pick up some mechanical skills from an individual song, but pretty soon, your mind starts learning how to get from one note to the next instead of "generalizing" the movement. That's why every song was just as difficult to learn as the last since I learned songs and not techniques.
Learning locks instead of lockpicking is a valuable perspective. Thanks for pointing that out.
Excellent points! Rotation of locks is key to functional practice. I agree E Bay is a source of inexpensive locks. I have found locks for $2-3 dollars.
Thanks.
Also a way of finding the wrong site and losing your
I'm new to lockpicking.. like BRAND new. I just received my lock pick kit today. Already picked my front and rear door locks, and a random masterlock. All because of your videos. Thank you! Time to find more locks!
Dear LockPickingLawyer,
thank you for your introduction video of your "how to learn pickin" practice. Your honesty, your dignity to this hobby and your openness towards new skills as well as sharing that knowledge - my deep respect, trank you too and as always, have a nice day!
I think this is spot on. I consider myself a beginner, coming to this hobby after idly dabbling 25 years ago & losing interest. Now I'm older and a shocking hoarder, I've already built up a crate of random locks. Many are the transparent training ones but some are production. I'm sticking with pin tumblers for now but have bought some dimple locks etc for when I get more advanced. Within my collection I do exactly as you have suggested here. Pick one, move on, and I'm already finding myself improving. I would add that immersing myself in videos such as yours and Bosnian Bill's, while way out of my league with techniques & terminology, helps to bathe me in the culture, styles, enjoyment and frustration to come. Thank you!
This just a perfect new found hobby for me. !!! I am a retired carpenter and have a lot of time now, I would prefer to do small shop woodworking projects but my back won't allow it,, I love a challenge and have a lot of patience, and I can do this sitting down at my workbench. I can't wait to get started with this. !!!
Thank you Sir. !!!! Watching your videos really inspired me. !!! You are just awesome!!!! 😎✌i
"while you were watching movies, I was studying the lock"
Every new picker needs to watch this video. Really glad I found it. Thanks, LPL.
Thanks, glad you like.
This video is just him flexing on us with the amount of metal pieces in a plastic box he has.
LPL at the checkout:
Lock'd! I forgot my purse, can I pay in lockcylinders ?
That bastard
This video was the inspiration to buy an eBay buy that has kept me going for a while. I bought about 40 locks, I go through and then gut and replace the pins. I need to buy another lot of locks, as my skill is increasing and can bust through my 40 locks pretty quickly. All together I bought $100 of locks and 20 dollars in pins. That 120 has gone a hell of a long way in not only picking knowledge but also gutting, switching the pins out, and making the locks harder to pick, not only by using security pins but tricks like a really short pin behind a really long pin. It's been a blast and it is a bit of an obsession at this point. Thanks LPL
This is exactly the approach to use for becoming better at solving math or science problems: you don't practice the same problem over and over again - or even twice in a row, for that matter. You pick a topic (= type of lock), such as solving and plotting quadratic equations (picking tubular locks) and work at one after the other.
Thanks for discussing this important fundamental principle of learning as it applies to lock picking, LPL!
Excellent thoughts. I am attempting the same method albeit on a smaller scale and totally agree something like this is necessary to avoid being overconfident in your skills by becoming familiar with a small selection of locks. Great video. Cheers
Thanks.
for pickers on a budget with a limited amount of locks I would suggest shuffling pins top and bottom to change things up.
That's always an option, but also a serious PITA.
+LockPickingLawyer that's why it's important, like picking, pinning takes practice too.
you can go to paris and lockpick all the locks you want on the bridge althought lockpicks are illegal there
What you explained here is the reason why you are so good at it 😊
Fantastic! This idea of "mixed practice" sometimes called "interleaving" has good support in educational/psychological research and seems to be strongly tied to flexibility, retention of deeper skills, and creativity. It applies to almost all learning. Very cool.
i know you mean watch a movie in your house, but it's fun to me to imagine
movie usher: "sir? what is this?"
LPL:" it's my lock belt, I always practice picking when I watch a movie"
MU: "?????????????"
The lock belt stays ON during sex
Lock or be unlocked...
This seems to be good advice for any new skill. Thanks for showing us the actual work you put in maintaining your skills.
This was very helpful! You saved me from going down the wrong rabbit hole. Thank you. 🙏🏼
This is one hell of a flex. 😂❤️
This is some really good advice. I myself take is a step further. I don't buy a whole lot of locks. Instead I find them. Literally on the side of the road. You might be surprised about how many you might find. People forget to lock them up or set them on their trailers and they just fall of after a period of time. The locks themselves are usually scratched up. Sometimes they are broken, but majority of the time they are just fine. As a note I'm not condoning walking into traffic just to get a hunk of metal. I advise people to be safe when making your own decisions. Cheers!
People watching movies
normal people: popcorn, pepsi
lockpickinglawyer: carabiner locks
Very good advice. I've become very good at several different skills in my life. I refrain from saying "mastered" because I think that is not possible. There will always be something out there that you haven't encountered.
Felling timber (logging) is one. I've felled many thousands of trees in my life. I've also climbed them and taken them down over multi million dollar homes and transmission lines working as an aborist. None are the same. None. When you set your saw into an individual tree it is the thousands of others that you have felled that tell you how to fell that one. Adding the risk of dying to the equation justs ups the anty.
I was also a licenced plumber for 15 years. Now, a lot of people will scoff at that because they don't know what it takes to get there. Good for them. I've never killed a family by improperly venting a boiler or water heater. There is so much stuff to learn in plumbing that no one person could ever know all of it.
I think our brains store this stuff, not on the top, but it is there and is accessed when we need it. I think you are spot on with your lock picking practice and I've never picked a lock in my life besides sliding a credit card through the front door of my house when I locked myself out. I hadn't locked the deadbolt.
I enjoy your videos immensely. Hats off to you.
love your comment, very true 👍👍
stay save logging.. i heard it's one of the most dangerous jobs out there. i read about logging accidents all the time in the news
Great info! I don't own much locks, but I'm blessed with a local locksmith that lend me lots of stuff, so at one point, I was doing the same, getting 5-10 different lock a week, picking them, bringing them back and so forth! Helped me a lot.
A supportive local lock locksmith can be a real asset. You are very locky. ;-)
+LockPickingLawyer guess how I got that scorpion ;)
Hi LPL, I started watching your vids through interest & what I’ve learnt from your vids came to good use today when I forgot the keys to my tool chest & was able to pick the locks to access my tools.
👍 Thanks LPL
Excellent, this is why I subscribe to your channel, for these lateral thinking gems that you put out from time to time.
I find that your slightly different approach very enlightening.
Thanks
Mike
Thanks... I have a few more videos along these lines in mind, but need to noodle the content a bit more. Thanks for the sub, and stay tuned for more.
I dont remember how I came acrossed your videos, but UA-cam must know me better than I know myself cause it really peaked my interest. It would of never even dawned on me people picked locks for a hobby. Now I'm going to try and learn myself. I've watched alot of your videos now and really enjoy them. I enjoy your voice and manner of speaking too it's very calming. You're like the Bob Ross of lock picking. 😂 in any case thanks for making these videos and sharing with the world.
"How I Practice Lock Picking"
*Cut to LPL breaking into someones house at midnight*
Lol
I appreciate this video and the practice methods it recommends. Unfortunately I don't have much money to buy locks and I only have 3 right now. What I've been doing after learning a lock is using the different types of picking tool to pick it again. It definitely changes the difficulty and I hope it makes me a better picker in the long run.
The only person to put more time into his hobby than his law degree.
I would LOVE to have seen this completed but I also have ADHD and totally understand lost interest. Whatever you choose, I enjoyed your videos on it.
Great idea, well executed. It's exactly the opposite approach to starting with one repinnable lock. You can vary the pins but the natural binding order will always be the same.
Thanks. Like I said in the video, everyone seems to have a different approach to picking and practice, and some people swear by those purpose-built practice locks. That said, I think that you zeroed right in on one of the two main weaknesses of them... the binding order (though that can be changed with security pins) and the fact that it can be a royal PITA to repin the lock dozens of times per practice session.
Probably watched dozens of your videos and just noticed that I wasn’t even subscribed. Made sure I subbed this time. Thanks for your informative videos. This hobby is useful for developing my concentration, patience and problem solving skills.
"Can you borrow a padlock?"
-"ain't got any" (laughing inside)
Lmao
I think your advice in this video translates very well into other skills, for example playing the piano. If you just play the same song, you may learning how to play that song, but not how to play the piano.
I have a carabiner full of locks. I go through each lock as if it was the first time and in random order. I’m also always adding to my collection. Thanks for validating my efforts! Keep up the great work...
🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼
LPL, you have given great credence to an old adage “ Practice makes perfect”
Nicely done!
The strength of the effort is measured in the result. There is never a mistake in the result.
When I first started getting into lock picking, are used to take coffee at 7 to 10 at a local restaurant. I would take a lock or two down there and practice. Pretty soon my friends, were bringing in locs. Usually without keys. This had the effect of making me a fairly good Universal picker.
Thank you !
Very good advice.
I have a series of locks that I have picked so many times I could open them all now with a paper clip and a Bobby pin.
I can't afford a ton of locks to practice, and shipping costs too much for the bargains I find on ebay. So what I do, is I have a dozen practice locks, and a couple re-pinning kits, and I just keep changing the pinning on them. But that only works with pin tumblers.
Another great video. I think most pickers tend to get 'stale', they get hung up or frustrated occasionally, these type videos are a very helpful tool, help regain some focus and concentration and relax, like a fresh start. This helps me to allay some frustration sometimes, it's a 'feel good' thing. Thanks for sharing ;-)
Thank you... One thing I didn't mention is that these practice sessions are very relaxing for me. My own little Zen getaway!
I totally agree with this philosophy of learning. I taught music in the same way. I was a guitar teacher but what I was actually trying to teach was understanding the music and how to engage with it using the instrument, not just how to memorise what finger to put where. If you understand what's happening and why then you can come up with different approaches from other challenges, and blend things, without just copy and pasting from elsewhere.
I 100% agree, the 1 point I would add is that is when you pick the same style of lock(not the same lock)you can pick useful techniques like tension amounts.
Thanks.
After buying a Sparrow lock picking set and a dummy plastic lock, I find what you said to be correct. I've picked that training lock several times, and an old Master lock a few times. I've also found that tension is much more important than picking. Thanks for your heart of a teacher, and keep up the great videos. I also equate locks to that of law, just because you're good at one type of law, doesn't mean that you're good at all of them.
I learned to pick locks playing the elder scrolls. level 100
And how many of those locks have you come across in the world? 😂😂😂
Same.
i learned from fallout.
SmallFries01 lol
I learned from betrayal at Krondor. Computer game from the 90's. I wonder if the lockpicking lawyer can pick a Webber lock. If anyone can do it, it's him!
LPL really great mindset video to watch to establish the correct baseline for this line of business
Thank you for sharing this out
Appreicated
Teacher: What are your hobbies?
LockPickingLawyer: I love picking locks, one day it will be my proffession
Teacher: Calls police
LPL, it's so nice to see some of your larger collection, and learn some of what's involved to maintain your skills. Thank you for sharing this.
I can just hear LPL sitting in the movie theater quietly saying, “click on one, nothing on two, three is binding...”
That's a great point, I recently bought a lock picking set and instead of picking the same practice lock over and over again, I went to my door and picked that, then I went to my car door and picked that, then I went to the neighbors door and picked that and the neighbor's neighbor's door and so on. Now I'm typing this while on probation, it was worth every lock I picked and screaming lady I encountered. I am a better lock picker now.
"I also have a lock picking club I go to once a week, where I sit around with the boys, drink beers, and pick locks while talking about whatever lock pickers talk about. We're meeting at my house next week and I'm ordering pizzas.... jokes on them though, I'm putting locks on the boxes (don't ask me how) and they get nasty luke warm/cold pizza if they can't solve it fast enough. Ah, I love lock picking club!"
the first rule of lock picking club, is, don't talk about lock picking club.... :-)
Just started picking and went back into your video catalog and this video really helped. In just one day I got noticably better from just picking through multiple locks in a single session. Thanks!
phrase - "it can be done, without breaking the bank" - have a different tone coming from a man with such skillset... :))))
Its a great hobby. I've been practicing on some locks, on my own door in the appartment complex and a flatmate wondered if I could pick his lock. Took some time because, like you said: it was new and I picked the same locks for giggles. But I managed and my flatmate got kinda scared. Assured him its just a COVID lockdown hobby. The patience required, a calm mind and learning the feeling of a set pin... its great!
This is how I got really good at picking my nose.
Excuse me sir/maam. Can I pick your nose for practice.
You never pick the same nose more than once in a row?
Hahahahahah
I bought a beginners lockpicking set a few years back, but it quickly ended up on my shelf. I watched a lot of YT videos about lockpicking back then, so when I recieved it I was already sure what to do. Still I sat down, to carefully read the manual that was included. The set consisted of 5 locks, each lock scaling up the number of pins (1 to 5 pins).
I easily opened the 1st and 2nd, but then I got stuck. The pins just didn't behave like I thought they would. Sometimes I could feel them, sometimes I couldn't, sometimes they would have force behind them, sometimes they would just hang loose. I watched more UA-cam videoes, trying to get answers to my problems but nothing helped. I kept "practicing" but I never really felt that I improved. I tried altering the amount of tension on the tension wrench, the amount of force on the pick, the different types of picks, but nothing helped.
Sometimes I would get a lock open by luck, but when I tried to replicate my method a second after, I would be stuck for 10 minutes before giving up. Most of the time I would quickly reach a point, where all the pins where either completely pushed up, or hanging loosely. At this point I couldn't think of anything but releasing the tension, which made me start over every 10-30 seconds perhaps.
I wasn't expecting it to be easy, but I was expecting to feel a senge of progression. I never did. I feel as useless a lockpicker now, as before. Once in a while I take the set down again, dust it off, and give it another go. But then the feeling of getting nowhere returns. I don't know what to do.
This is my set:
ht tps:/ /w ww.southord.co m/produ cts/locksmith-school-in-a-box-st-23
Thats his Netflix and chill.
Netflix and pick
What you say makes a lot of sense because each lock is different even if you encounter five of the same locks they're going to have a different pin set inside so they're going to be picked a little bit differently. So thank you for this it is really helpful
you know this is exactly the same way you teach a machine-learning algorithm to classify data. If you give it one data set and make it learn it over and over again, it will learn that very well but wont generalize. On the other hand, if you have hundreds if not thousands of datasets you make your model generalize to most datasets. Interesting video.
I just started learning lock picking. I lost my job and I'm looking for new skills to improve myself with. Knowing I'm naturally heavy handed when it comes to a lot of things. This is very difficult for me to adjust to. The practice lock i got with the set i can pick rather easily now. Nothing like the masters. But I struggle immensely on doorknob locks and deadbolts around the house. Like i learned here. I'm moving from lock to lock trying to figure things out and control my heavy handedness. Big struggle on my part. But the satisfaction of getting that pick after many failures is worth it. I hope to eventually make it to at least half LPL level. Just gotta stick with it.
P.S Thank you for all your helpful and entertaining videos. Always enjoy watching new and old.
I'd love to see you in a 3 star restaurant waiting for your food to arrive.
The first 1 minute is one of the Most Profound on UA-cam. Life Lesson for sure !!!!! Don't get comfortable, don't get in a rut. Keep learning, Don't be a zombie through life.
"Good morning your honour, I am defending my client who was caught outside the warehouses because he was RUBBISH"
Thanks for the video. I appreciate your channel for remembering things that other channels don’t touch on. This video and the one you did focussing just on tension techniques were both really good watching for anyone but particularly for those who are still pretty new.
Thanks for this great video. Your fantastic skills proof that you are right with this kind of workflow. You have more locks in one Set you showed, then I have in my whole collection. ;-) Of we go to ebay.
Thanks. Ebay is a godsend for us pickers.
I worked for the automobile association and certain cars have to be picked, due to dead locking. I found that as I only had one vw lock that pulling it apart and changing the waffer order helped to give a new lock feel. Not a complete answer to problem but did vary it.
I do it a bit differently. Instead of having a tote full of locks, i have a large neighborhood full of homes that are oddly quiet and dark at night.
Did the judge agree that it's a hobby?
After watching you an BosnianBill I decided to give this a try. I purchased some inexpensive picks on Banggood and got to work. I have picked every lock in my home. Some were easy, some not so. I've ordered more picks in .0015" since some of the wardings are a little tight. I also found a deal for Master lock No1 locks with extended shackles still in the box at $5.00 each so I bought 30 of them. Today I found an outfit on Alibaba selling tubular locks for $.30 each plus freight with a minimum purchase of 1 unit. I'm going to have a look on EBay to see what I can find there. And yes, this is getting expensive but it is also challenging so I'm having fun.
Great video, definitely a good way to improve your random picking skills.
Keep it up.
Thank you.
This is a very interesting approach, and it makes sense to not get stuck into a pattern or used to a way a specific lock works. Thanks for a great video (still, years later)!
Unfortunately for me, where I live, it's really difficult to access that amount of locks for a reasonable price, so collecting this variety of a type of lock would take me a long time. On average used locks sell for 10-20 dollars, and high quality ones are often above 50. Not that that will stop me of course.
All the best!
When hes mad he goes to the paris bridge and picks all the locks
omg! that is brilliant xD
With only a tension bar , a shim and a WAVE RAKE
I realize I am commenting on an old video, but thank you for making this. This is a great approach and is giving me a lot of good ideas. I am new to picking but old to following the hobby. I have seen almost all your videos and Bills videos. I have been buying used lock lots on eBay because right now it is a cheap way to get 5 or more locks, but I love the idea to resale them, I think I am going to do just that.
He used to be slow back in the day. Watch at 1.25x speed for 2021 lpl.
Hi Harry, Been away, have just seen your video, and it does make a lot of sense. Continually picking the one lock doesn't really advance your skills, but rotating many locks at random is the way to go. Excellent advice, thanks for putting it out there. Regards, Brian.
Thanks... In other news, I may have a BiLock video soon. Last night I received a 1st generation (I think) BiLock KIK cylinder without a key. Opened it in about 15 minutes! I was pretty happy with that for a blind pick, considering how much trouble the one you sent me has been. I didn't have much time to play with it, but I'm cautiously optimistic. Maybe all the time I have spent playing with the lock you sent is paying off. We will see soon enough.
Other lockpickers: so how many locks do you have
Lockpicking lawyer: Yes
Silly meme
"Yes" in ASCII converted to binary to decimal makes 89 101 115
so just shy of 90 million, feels like a fair estimate
@@Uocjat The more you know.
@@Uocjat "yes" is also base-36 for 44596 decimal.
@@Uocjat If you instead go case-sensitive, base-62, encoded with all the lower-case letters first, then the upper-case, then "Yes" works out to 231536 decimal.
That's sage advice right there if I've never heard another example anywhere else. Could apply this logic to quite a few things and come out ahead there too.
Lets say that you have 4 locks and 4 different keys and 1 master that open all 4.
Do you have a video on how this works ?
Thanks in advance.
The term is master wafers I believe!
He has a video on those tsa locks and master locks. Not sure which one but try just searching lock picking lawyer TSA locks or something
I know it’s seven months late, but if you’re asking how master keys work generally each pin is split in two places (creating three pieces) so that there are two valid heights at which it will allow the core to turn. One set of heights will be the same across all the locks, corresponding to the master key, and the other set will be different for each lock, corresponding to the key that can only open that lock
Thanks for the tip. Just started picking YESTERDAY when my practice lock arrived. Since then been looking all over the house for padlocks and will buy some online!
Can you recommend any locks or training locks that would be available in the UK that can be re-pinned for practising different configurations without having to keep buying locks all the time? Plus, where I could get pins of varying types and security levels to use in said lock? Thanks.
Sorry, I'm not familiar enough with locks in the UK to make a recommendation. As for security pins, when I use commercial security pins, I usually get them from clksupplies.com ... not sure if they ship overseas.
Lnxyy no.... just no
I'm also in the UK, there's a great Canadian lock picking company called Sparrows that ship to the UK (postage cost about a fiver for me) and they sell a repinnable brass practice lock with a window into the lock body to see the pins which is great for practice. They also sell a 'reload kit' which includes loads of security pins and springs etc with all the stuff you need to repin a lock. All in all it cost me about £35 with postage and it's been great for helping me practice
I got my first picks and a transparent practice lock from UKbumpkeys.com. They have a wide variety of locks and prices including repinnable locks which come with a box full of pins and springs for you to fiddle with. (The cheaper locks can probably also be repinned but you'd need to put some work in to access and then resecure them, not sure if the payoff is worth it.) They also have reduced prices on various items, it's the one site I've signed up for the (rare) news mailings and I've not regretted it. Only complaint I have is that the first lock I bought was far too easy to open with a simple rock & rake, which gave me a false sense of how easy a hobby this is, but it is marketed as a starter lock so has no security features; going back to first principles and doing some SPP helped me get my money's worth out of it.
Another good source for practice locks is friends and work colleagues. I found some old padlocks at work that we'd lost the keys for so could never use, and have been happily playing with them for a while now; this really helps you learn how to approach a lock blind, work out how many pins or wafers it has, etc.
locksaway is great. Im beginner and currently picking one with removable pins. Definitely helps.
I'm watching all of your videos but this one has to be the most important
Dear LPL,
Looking on Ebay, I can't find lock cylinders for anything close to 30 cents each. Any tips?
Ty,
LockDoc
MariposaDoctor you suck
@@lefty3565 thanks very helpful
a whole year late but check out local flea markets
Solid info bud! This is a gem of a non picking instructional video on UA-cam. The analogy in the back of my mind has always been that these locks are a kin to easy chicks from the bar... lol, hit it once or twice and be done. But I've never thought about having a harem to randomly pick through ;^)
LOL. Thanks.
Sometimes I wonder if the LPL has keys or just walks around with a lock picking set on his key ring instead
Deviant Ollam has stated that he has some locks he actually does this with. Not the good locks for stuff that needs to be really secure, but he has some he uses in less critical applications, where it's more about tamper evidence or even just needing to technically count as "locked", where he threw away the keys years ago, but kept the locks, because picking/raking them is easier than messing with the actual key.
@@JohnDoe-nq4du I know that guy too. I feel oddly proud by that fact.
I had a car once that was quicker to open with a coat hanger than the actual key. Especially in the winter.
I used the key anyway. Too many questions the other way.
@@ceoyoyo I can imagine-
“Hey, what are you doing?” *starts calling police*
“Breaking into my car.”
“You’re locked out?”
“No.”
“Then why are you breaking in?”
“It’s faster to pick it.”
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