Freaky Farmer videos

[xeo]

I received this Bilock quite some time ago from Datagram. The idea was to pick it out of the box on camera.. Technically, that did happen. But the video was over an hour long and unfortunately I don't have the video.

Sooner or later I knew that I had to pick it on camera again. And because I couldn't pick it out of the box, I decided to have a little fun with gloves.

LOL... FF at it again

[Farmerfreak]

Very nice, FF. As always, very impressive. Is there a different feel to the false gates, or do you just lift enough to see if the fingers of the sidebar will move?

Gordon

False gates and real gates feel the same at first. To pick bilocks first you need to set all the pin to a gate (real or false). To do that we use basic picking knowledge, find the binding pin and move it until it isn't binding (springy).

Once they are all set and the lock turns a little bit, once again we look for the binding pin. Once we have located the binding pin we will know that it is in a false gate and needs to be set to the other gate.

Don't think too much about it, it's pretty simple. The binding pin needs to be moved until it isn't binding..

[xeo]

The binding pin needs to be moved until it isn't binding..

The famous words of FF. +1000

[Farmerfreak]

Two videos shot yesterday. We could have should have done both in one shot, but didn't.. Then we stopped recording, which was a good thing because the next took around an hour to pick.





These are tight keyways for a medeco. I can't twist the picks much at all to control the angles, and find myself using my groove grabber to turn some of the pins even though the pins don't have a groove to grab.

[GWiens2001]

Nice picking, Farmer.

Also, thank you very much for picking these for us. Anything I can do for you, let me know!

Gordon

[Riyame]

Incredible job, thanks again for picking on them.

[Oldfast]

Always, always, ALWAYS such a beautiful thing to watch you pick my friend.
Thanks for always sharing. And thanks for always being willing to tryn' explain!

I remember, roughly two years ago... I watched you pick an EVVA 3KS out of box.
I was blown away and very excited Thanks for always inspiring me FarmerFreak

[Alaphablue]

Awesome you are truly a master picker a freak even

[Farmerfreak]

Keymaster sent me an old rusty S&G..

[jfw]

Great job on that old S&G lock. I'd be too scared it would eat my picks.

[Farmerfreak]

This is GWiens EVVA, and it was an evil lock that needed to be slayed!

[GWiens2001]

Unbelievable! Under 4 1/2 minutes! I worked with that sucker for 4 1/2 weeks and did not get it.

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.

Gordon

[Farmerfreak]

Unbelievable! Under 4 1/2 minutes!

With practice and multiple failed attempts on camera. Still, I'm happy.

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.

[Farmerfreak]

GWiens's S&G951

Sorry, out of the box was a fail. After ~15 minutes, I wasn't feeling it so I took a break. After I came back the magic happened!!

[Oldfast]

ALWAYS such a treat to watch you work your way through a lock. Brilliant.