Newest Bogota Style Pick
xeo: you do whatever the lock wants
Neilau wrote:I agree with luxocculta. Wiper blades are made of good metal but are a bit narrow to make Bogs from. It can be done but the picks are not optimum.
I've used SS shims that I got on ebay. Packs of 10 @ 25 thou. Quite inexpensive and I made a lot of picks from these shims.
Another source are cheep Chinese feeler gauge sets that you can get in auto shops for about $10. Use the 20 to 32 thou blades and you still have the thinner and thicker blades for specialist jobs.
Hack saw blades, I have found, tend to be too brittle unless you get the really TOP quality, Premium blades and even then it is expensive and (in my opinion) not the best steel for picks.
If you don't want to test all the different steels yourself, a few hours spent reading through "Home Brew" will give you a good idea of what others have found.
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