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The good the bad and the ugly

PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:10 pm
by Spartapicks
These are the first picks I tried to make after the ones that I made out of a nail and a bike spoke those where the truly ugly.
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Street sweeper blades and clay handels and no idea what I was doing but I loves me some grinder.
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I'm so proud of them Giants swept their way in to first place
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Almost as proud as I am of my little lock conquest
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Now I'm useing sawsall blades or broken hacksaw blades .
With rigid plastic tubing for the handles. I fix the pick in the handle with quick steel
I like these they work and I haven't mangled any to bad trying to pick
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Re: evolution home made picks

PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:11 pm
by elbowmacaroni
I think you forgot to insert your attachments...

Spartapicks wrote:I'm new to this about a month. The first four are the survivors from the first batch. They where way to thin . Then two more with my interpretation of a rake not very strong but it works. Then the last two withthe white handles are my latest. Im getting better at picking. I only have these three locks but I can open all of them. I have been out of work for over a year so I am totally broke. If anyone has any locks that are no fun for them to pick at any more they would be greatly appreciated over here. Perhaps after some more evolution I may produce some picks that I can trade

Re: evolution home made picks

PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:16 pm
by Spartapicks
I don't get it I can't get my photo's to upload. Sort of takes the fun out of this post. LOL. I'm getting a message. The image file you tried to attach is invalid ?

Re: evolution home made picks. technical problems no images

PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:13 pm
by piotr
You can upload your photos to one of the free photo hosting sites and then just include links to them in your post. The forum software will resolve the links and display the referenced photos if you use the 'Img' tags.

Re: evolution home made picks

PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:03 am
by MBI
Spartapicks wrote:I don't get it I can't get my photo's to upload. Sort of takes the fun out of this post. LOL. I'm getting a message. The image file you tried to attach is invalid ?

What's the file format, file size and image dimensions?

Re: picks of picks I hope

PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 2:45 pm
by Spartapicks
JPEG 154mb is that what your asking I am from that last generation befor the machines took over .gen X. They are just photos that I took with the camra on my Toshiba Thrive and they are stored in my gallery.

Re: picks of picks I hope

PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:42 pm
by MBI
Spartapicks wrote:JPEG 154mb is that what your asking I am from that last generation befor the machines took over .gen X. They are just photos that I took with the camra on my Toshiba Thrive and they are stored in my gallery.

Here is a nice tutorial that Aedalas just made. Look it over and see if it helps.
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Re: The good the bad and the ugly

PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 12:10 pm
by Oldfast
What a wonderful progression to see! The quality of your work is getting better in a big hurry.

I look foward to seeing more from you. Keep up the good work n thanks for sharing it with us.

And a delayed WELCOME to you Spartapicks.... I'm Mike. Good to meet ya :)