It was wonderful to attend EMF Camp again in 2022, and see so many faces – both old and new. It’s always a good time meeting so many new people, having interesting conversations and sharing knowledge, food, stories and laughter! We owe a debt of gratitude to Jan-Willem for coming all the way over from […]
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A note from Zeefeene: This article was kindly written by The Rickest Rick, from the toool.uk discord server. You can read the first part here. If you’re interested in writing an article for toool.uk, don’t hesitate to get in touch! My Picking Journey – From Injury to YouTube (Part 2) Welcome to, or welcome
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A note from Zeefeene: This article was kindly written by The Rickest Rick, from the toool.uk discord server. There are more parts to come, but the first part will be published here today. If you’re interested in writing an article for toool.uk, don’t hesitate to get in touch! My Picking Journey – From Injury
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This week I wanted to cover the belt ranking system that has been developed by the brilliant people behind the lockpicking subreddit. For those of you who are as of yet still unaware, this belt ranking system is an excellent resource for those in the US and Europe, which ranks a wide selection of locks
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In lots of countries across the world, there is no issue with owning lockpicking tools privately, if they don’t leave your home, and you don’t try picking any locks that you don’t have permission to pick or are in use. Please note: You are responsible for checking the law in your own jurisdiction! However, there
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For this article, I thought it might be useful to take a look at two meanings of lockpicking which are floating around in common usage, both by people in the locksport community, and those outside. This won’t be a deep dive into etymology, but rather an attempt to draw out a distinction between two different
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This week, I thought I’d share the files for a springless lever lock design I made a few years ago. I’ve been meaning to put these out there for a little while. There’ll be a series of articles going through the design written too, although that’s a non-trivial process, and will take some time. After
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If you spend a lot of time making challenge locks, repinning locks, or otherwise taking a lot of locks apart, then one of the useful tools you can look at acquiring is a pinning kit. A pinning kit is a rectangular box with different compartments which contain all of the different pins, wafers, springs, circlips,
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Apologies for the missed post last week, I’m sure it was heart-wrenching to the innumerable devoted followers of this blog! The reason was because I was giving a talk at this year’s DEFCON hacker conference, which was virtual this year. The excellent people at TOOOL US were responsible for running a lockpicking village there, which
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In my last article, I discussed how to improve the quality of your lockpicking practice, which I developed primarily to help me prepare for the LockCon picking competition that year. However, if you were thinking of participating in a lockpicking competition – Which I highly recommend to anyone with an intermediate level of lockpicking skill
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