GWiens2001 wrote:Unbelievable! Under 4 1/2 minutes!
With practice and multiple failed attempts on camera. Still, I'm happy.
GWiens2001 wrote:Thank you very much for also showing the pick you made. What kind of steel was that? The neck is very slender. Would not have thought of making a curve in the pick similar to a dimple pick.
Nothing special about the metal, it's made from a broken HPC pick.
There are a few quirks about using that pick though. The pick can't lift the pins up in the normal fashion. It needs to rest on the keyway and catch the side of the pin and be twisted in order to lift a pin. Doing so gives far more rotational action than lifting action. Finding the right amount of constantly varying tension is tricky.
Also it's important to have a straight needle pick that can go in and work it's way around the keyway to lift up all the pins. It's easy to get that pick stuck in the lock, and the only way to get it back out in one piece would be to lift up all the pins in front of it.
Plus a straight pick with the aid of a light can let you know that the last cut in the lock is the shallowest cut in the lock before even trying to actually pick the lock! Because when all the pins in front of it are lifted out of the way and you look inside you can see the entire key pin in the last chamber.