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"unbusted" Best Locks

PostPosted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 2:56 pm
by awol70
these American paddy's were custom pinned by two locksmith buds of mine,made special to drive me TOTALLY mental...(well, more totally than i already am)
(they too will fall)
.............eventually...
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the "J" is for jagged profile

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Re: "unbusted" Best Locks

PostPosted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 3:01 pm
by barbarian
Do I count seven pins there..?? :shock:

Poor little locks, think they so tough.

They don't stand a chance.

Re: "unbusted" Best Locks

PostPosted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 3:19 pm
by awol70
barbarian wrote:Do I count seven pins there..?? :shock:

Poor little locks, think they so tough.

They don't stand a chance.

yeah, 7 pinners.. filled with all kinds of nasty S#it i am sure....
only ever been locked out of a Best once.....
let's hope it stays that way...
=)

Re: "unbusted" Best Locks

PostPosted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 5:00 pm
by elbowmacaroni
Well at least they're not some of the crazier W(x) variants.... some of those are INSANE warding! Not to diminish the wackiness of the warding there either... that looks like there's nowhere really good to lever off without the pick slipping due to either the slope of the ward or the angle from the pins.

-Elbow :akimbo:

Re: "unbusted" Best Locks

PostPosted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 5:12 pm
by ChemicalRobot
elbowmacaroni wrote:that looks like there's nowhere really good to lever off without the pick slipping due to either the slope of the ward or the angle from the pins.

Yeah I noticed that too - it looks scary. I guess you could always make a tool by grinding a key blade down really far to fill in the bottom of the keyway, and then use that as a place to work your pick off of.

Re: "unbusted" Best Locks

PostPosted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 6:07 pm
by the lockpickkid
I wish I could say that a Best has never defeated me!! I have picked some tough ones, and others remain unpicked. For those crazy keyways I always make a tension wrench to fit that keyway, I don't mess around and try to get something to work I just make something that does. Makes things easier.

Re: "unbusted" Best Locks

PostPosted: Wed May 05, 2010 5:56 pm
by awol70
BUSTED!!!!

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vid uploading now.

Re: "unbusted" Best Locks

PostPosted: Wed May 05, 2010 6:39 pm
by gibbling666
Grats man. Waiting on the vid.

Re: "unbusted" Best Locks

PostPosted: Wed May 05, 2010 6:47 pm
by happykill
Great work, Awol! Looks like yer back in full swing, again :smile:

Re: "unbusted" Best Locks

PostPosted: Wed May 05, 2010 6:55 pm
by awol70


here's the vid...

[EDIT] Fixed the link to embed video... Elbow :akimbo: [/EDIT]

Re: "unbusted" Best Locks

PostPosted: Wed May 05, 2010 9:23 pm
by elbowmacaroni
Nice work man! You definitely got the mad lockpicking skills! Evil, evil looking keyway... Was that one of the Sparrow's Picks that you were using there?

-Elbow

Re: "unbusted" Best Locks

PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 9:28 am
by awol70
elbowmacaroni wrote:Nice work man! You definitely got the mad lockpicking skills! Evil, evil looking keyway... Was that one of the Sparrow's Picks that you were using there?

-Elbow
thanks elbow.
yeah, sparrows proto shorty.

Re: "unbusted" Best Locks

PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 10:42 am
by Solomon
That's one funky profile, looks identical to the arrow core I did a while back. Congrats getting them picked, and to control no less! Very impressive. :mrgreen:

Re: "unbusted" Best Locks

PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 2:23 pm
by awol70
Solomon wrote:That's one funky profile, looks identical to the arrow core I did a while back. Congrats getting them picked, and to control no less! Very impressive. :mrgreen:

yeah, pretty wonky profile... =/
"J"
takes a feather touch to hit CTRL without a sleeve tool
thanks for checking out my vid..

Re: "unbusted" Best Locks

PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 2:43 am
by nhoj_yelbom
Nice to know, im still working on hitting control on mine