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 …
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 …
A gallery of Super-Loki’s dimple pick makes Tools required: Hammer Anvil or something hard metal to beat against Pair of heavy pliers (Electrical or whatever, if they have cutters) – two pairs is better if you want to skip the anvil step Files or other grinding system Fine grit sand paper Pin vice or something …
This is a quick post about making your own locksmith cylinder repair and take it apart tools. Now, you’ll need to buy circlip pliers, or just risk stabbing yourself with a small flathead screwdriver to remove the circlip on most lock cylinders. Everything else? You can improvise. A plug follower can be made from a …
Welcome to Part 3: making your own lever lock picks The other great material for making your own picks is actually the key itself. Whether a blank or a pre-cut key – often, for high security locks, the one that came with the lock, as those blanks tend to be very hard to get – …
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 …
Welcome to Part 2, looking more at dimple locks than Part 1. Part 1 is here. The other great material for making your own picks is actually the key itself. Whether a blank or a pre-cut key – often, for high security locks, the one that came with the lock, as those blanks tend to …
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 …
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, …
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 …
