Re: What have you picked today
Edit: tinypic decided to replace the first picture with something else entirely, WTF?
Got this one without a key or any other information about the core at all. Apparently the neighbor of a friend had locked up a storage shed with it and lost the key. Luckily he mauled the thing it was attached to instead of ruining the lock/shackle (in fact, it came with a bit of metal from the door still attached to the shackle).
Unsure what's in it - behaves a lot like serrated pins and little to no counter-rotation. Edit: Turns out it is indeed serrated pins, two to three serrations each. Is this really an ASSA core?
It's been sitting in my collection unpicked for far, far too long. Haven't even made an effort in a long time but figured yesterday I should give it a go now that I have more experience with serrated pins.
Tricky part was working with the nasty warding and not oversetting pins during the last segment of the picking (latter made worse by the former since constantly touching the warding really dulls the feel of the pins). Had to find just the right level of tension.