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Each board is labeled with its keyway, and each lock cylinder on a board is labeled with the number of installed pin stacks (from one to six) and the keying code for its pinning. Over the years, what is billiards the locksmithing industry has settled on a number of "standard" pick designs. The picks are made by Peterson International (a locksmithing tool vendor in upstate New York with manufacturing facilities in South Africa). It is not clear what some of these picks are intended to actually do. For most of the picking methods discussed here, in which tumblers are manipulated one by one, a "hook"-style pick is generally used. That said, the Peterson hook picks are a bit too large to fit comfortably in more tightly warded keyways, especially those found on higher-security locks. Small digits represent short bottom pins (that must be pushed up more to reach the shear line); large digits represent longer bottom pins (that need only be pushed up a bit). If only serrated top pins are used, reverse picking may be successful. You may perhaps furthermore want to try out some Chinese providers, on the web.

Most of the esoteric pick designs in the huge, overpriced sets you see on the web and from locksmith suppliers are useless, and eventually end up being discarded in favor of the basic hooks. The following is a series of self-paced exercises to help you master the basic techniques of pin tumbler lock picking. The basic recommended pick set for this course includes four picks and four torque tools. You will need a small set of cylinders in various keyways, a board or vice to hold them in while you practice, and a small re-pinning kit (extra pins and springs and a "follower" tool). While there are literally thousands of different keyways in commercial use in the United States and thousands more abroad, these four give a fairly representative sample of the different kinds of wardings (and pin manipulation problems) you are likely to encounter in common (non-high-security) locks. The selection of the torque tool is just as important as that of the pick, but, again, commercial pick kits often fail to include a sufficient range of sizes and designs to allow good control and feel across the range of common locks. The proper pick and torque tool selection depend on the shape of the keyway, the features of the lock, the picking technique, and the individual preferences of the user.

I made the torque tools out of Peterson's .025 inch spring steel of different widths. In the lab you'll find a collection of small (12 inch by 18 inch) lock boards, each containing six specially pinned locks with a given keyway. LAB is a lock pin and locksmith tool manufacturer. The six character keying code gives the pinning from the front of the lock to the back, with a "-" for a missing pin stack and a digit for a pin that is installed. The locks are drilled for up to six pins. Each pins has a groove cut in its side at the position corresponding to its correct rotation. The pick must be strong enough to resist bending or breaking while lifting pins, yet the shaft must be small and thin enough to maneuver freely around the keyway without disturbing other pins. While the LAB picks are quite nice, their small size makes them rather delicate and easy to bend or break, especially as you're learning how much lifting force and torque are involved. The LAB picks can comfortably maneuver around even very tight keyways, and are among my personal favorites. If you're not in my seminar, the references to the lock boards in the lab don't apply, of course; you will need to configure your own training locks to follow these exercises.

There is a more detailed discussion of configuring training locks at the end of this document. If you are like most of us, more often than not you are expected to play on coin-top tables. Some items we accept for pawn or sell like bicycle, hunting knife, fishing reel, golf club set, scuba fins, binoculars, pool cue, bow, hunting gun and more. Like if you say over and over again the word "yes." Yes. It has several advantages over traveling in airplanes. They allow very precise control over torque, especially when employing advanced picking techniques that involve a slight reversing of the rotation of the keyway. Raking, in contrast, is a class of picking techniques in which several pin stack may be set at the shear line simultaneously. There is a tradeoff, of course, since a longer handle may be difficult to maneuver around obstacles. Torque tools may be oriented vertically (with the handle in line with the keyway) or horizontally (with the handle perpendicular to the keyway); different people have different preferences. Two of the tools orient the handle perpendicular to the keyway and two orient the handle vertically. Most commercial torque tools are designed for horizontal orientation.