Lock Picking - myth or just plain cool?
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
Have you wanted to pick locks? You see it in all the films, and it only takes 5 seconds and a couple of paper clips… yeah, right. When you try it for yourself, you quickly realise that its much harder than that!
I bought a lock picking practice board just like the one of the left, and a set of lock picks. It took me 2 weeks with about 15 minutes practice a day, but I found that I could rake the lock (which has 5 pins), and pick it! The actual picking process involves pushing each individual pin inside the lock until it catches inside the barrel, where you can then turn the tension wrench and open the lock.
Raking is a faster process which can be likened to a kind of brute force technique, but is very effective. What you are doing is trying to push all of the pins up so that they stick, as you rapidly move the rake tool back and forth inside the lock.
If you want to try your hand at lock picking, I strongly recommend a company called Tradenet UK as they have many lock picking tools, training kits and instructional resources to buy at surprisingly low prices. If you’ve always fancied a bit of lock picking, why not get it out of your system, and try it! Sure, its really cool to be able to pick a lock, but there have been 2 separate occasions where it actually came in useful!
