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Re: Post your pick sets!
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Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:51 pmby piotr
eidissenberg wrote: It's a 26 piece I think. Had it for 5 years. Lost 1 pick today and 1 some years ago..
What is the brand? I do not recognise it. What does it say in the handles?
Re: Post your pick sets!
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Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:58 pmby eidissenberg
piotr wrote:eidissenberg wrote: It's a 26 piece I think. Had it for 5 years. Lost 1 pick today and 1 some years ago..
What is the brand? I do not recognise it. What does it say in the handles?
It reminds me 99% of SouthOrd lockpicks... But I bought it here in norway from a site. "Dirken.no" But it's been down for years. It stands "dirken.no" on the pics
Re: Post your pick sets!
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Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:09 pmby Aedalas
eidissenberg wrote:Lost 1 pick today and 1 some years ago..
Guessing one is the king. I give up though, what is the other lost pick? Capped hook?
Re: Post your pick sets!
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Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:11 pmby Solomon
Eidissenberg, you've had that set for 5 years and never filed down those massive fuck-off hooks? Get filing and get some use outta them!!
Re: Post your pick sets!
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Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:51 pmby piotr
eidissenberg wrote:piotr wrote:eidissenberg wrote: It's a 26 piece I think. Had it for 5 years. Lost 1 pick today and 1 some years ago..
What is the brand? I do not recognise it. What does it say in the handles?
It reminds me 99% of SouthOrd lockpicks... But I bought it here in norway from a site. "Dirken.no" But it's been down for years. It stands "dirken.no" on the pics
Yes, very similar to SouthOrd, Southern Specialties and Pro-Lock sets, i.e. stainless steel with laminated stainless handles. Are they thin like the SouthOrd "Euro" series?
Re: Post your pick sets!
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Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:02 pmby eidissenberg
Aedalas wrote:eidissenberg wrote:Lost 1 pick today and 1 some years ago..
Guessing one is the king. I give up though, what is the other lost pick? Capped hook?
I broke this of 5 years ago when I was a kid, hihi.
http://gyazo.com/cef0b57f93264d183715236b82c38d29 And I lost the 5th pick from the right on my first picture..
piotr I don't know, but I guess so
Not that much bending after 5 years. I can provide more pictures if someone wants.
Re: Post your pick sets!
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Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:48 pmby piotr
LockSafe wrote:Just a few of mine
Greetings fellow pick pornographer/whore/collector/connoisseur/obsessive
I am happy to see another member that has the same illness as Ed Smiley, MBI and myself (ahab also has the disease but it isn't as advanced
, but the symptoms are definitely there). I have refused to purchase the HUK "Feather" aka "Swan" pick-set because it is an illegitimate copy of Ratyoke's original artistry, design and execution (see
http://www.keypicking.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=5633&p=46496#p46496). Nevertheless, a lovely collection (or fraction thereof) that speaks of an aesthete as much as it does of a technician. I am at least 30-hours without sleep so please excuse my florid (
) prose.
Re: Post your pick sets!
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Fri Aug 17, 2012 4:57 pmby nozza36
Laid out a selection of mine but not sure if the pics will do it justice !
Re: Post your pick sets!
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Tue Oct 02, 2012 3:53 pmby Aedalas
Late to the party here, but finally got some shots of my picks.
These are the ones I use the most:
Less often used:
Full set laid out:
Re: Post your pick sets!
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Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:42 pmby KokomoLock
Here is what I have!!!
Close-up of my main carry case.
Lever Padlock picks and Curtain Lever pick set
Re: Post your pick sets!
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Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:11 amby rai
I carry a pair of diy bogotas and a similiar pair of short hook and small deforest, I seldom have to pick any random lock but if I do, i feel confident that these are probably going to suffice.
I also have a pile of picks in various pouches that i would bring if I knew I was going to be picking locks, and I have some collector picks from ratyoke and others that don't use on locks because that would scratch them. and a large collection of some chinese knockoffs some of which I dont' know what they are used for, that I took in trade long ago, and never have used, they seem too big for anything but a folgermaximogul
Re: Post your pick sets!
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Sat Jan 04, 2014 5:37 pmby UnlockD
My set. Not as full as I'd like, though I mainly use the DeForest and occasionally one of my rakes.
Re: Post your pick sets!
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Sat Jan 04, 2014 7:23 pmby xeo
Re: Post your pick sets!
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Sat Jan 04, 2014 8:25 pmby Neilau
Xeo.
That's quite a collection of hooks !!
I notice that a lot of them are very slightly different.
Do you have a couple that more effective than others ? ie your "go to" hook.
Also, do you use different hooks when picking the same lock?
Last question: what brand? or home made.
I have noticed that my collection of hooks has been rapidly expanding since I got serious about SPP.
Thanks for sharing.
Cheers.
Re: Post your pick sets!
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Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:56 pmby xeo
The purple slim ones are Peterson gems and short hooks in .018 gov steel. I have some southord slenders with varying hook curves I use in different locks. Some of those hooks in there are home made. There are also a bunch of picks I've acquired since then that are missing from that old photo. My go to pick is a Peterson gem or short hook. When you get serious about SPP you'll want different types of hooks, a half diamond, and picks with thin non-tapered shanks to them for the difficult keyways.
Oh yeah, and the case is a Sparrows case. It is excellent.