DIY Professional Lock Picks!

how to make you very own lock picks! out of house hold items1!!!11 yay!


I was browsing through some random instructables not finding anything of much interest except ALL OF TETRANITRATES POSTS! boy man your my idol!
so neways i thought to myself "hmm not many good instructables on making professional lock picks" and so my very fist instructable was born.....

this instructable will outline some very good methods of making quite good lock picks that function surprisingly well.

Step 1: MATERIALS! AND OVERVIEW

MATERIALS!!!
2 hacksaw blades (ammount can vary)
bench grinder.
assorted allan keys.
files (if you do not posses a bench grinder).
and if you dont have either a bench grinder or files at a very last resort you can use a angle grinder with metal disk (EXTREEMLY DANGEROUS)

Comments

[lockpicken]

hahah that picture is just freaking awesome.



How did you make that?

Was it actually on fire on your head while making this?



Thats crazy:P



This guide helped me to make some goood lockpicks

thanks!



Cya!

[jlund]

This way is a bit longer but take a pop can and cut the top and bottom off then un fold it get a clay brick or a anvil and pound the can pice flat then roll it the long way to were the rol of can is about as big around as a pencil then pound flat then get pliers and roll again then pound then roll then pound then roll then pound till its small enough to fit in a lock then for a tention rench do th same but folld then pound then fold then pound it takes a wile but if done correctly its the best home made lock picks ever

[tweakgeek]

What's that burning thing doing on his head?

[Robotrix]

It would help people who don't know how to use these tools if you explained what they were for. It might seem obvious to you that a tension wrench needs to fit into most keyways, but what if someone didn't know how to use it? Where does it need to fit into keyways? How thin should it be? Picks made with a grinder are going to need some serious sanding before they work well enough to be called professional. Unsanded picks will get caught on pins constantly. Also, your spelling is atrocious, and you didn't actually mention more than one way to make either picks or tension wrenches, or alternate materials for either like windshield washer blade inserts, street sweeper tines, spring steel strapping, or old steel rulers. I'd appreciate seeing more research going into this and more instruction coming out.

[0Isey0]

This his first instructable, can't you just let him be god

[Robotrix]

you're about two years too late for that comment to be applicable, but i appreciate your message. I could definitely have gone a little easier with the wording and still have made my same points in a more constructive way. I guess i've matured in the two years since i posted this.

[assassin867]

2 years later...

[paradox116]

^^ lol

[Vendigroth]

stainless steel paring knives, ground to the correct size. they're a little tougher than the carbon steel hacksaw blades. Also, sawblades with a high chromium content are much more flexible and still as hard, tho that might interfere with the sensations involved slightly. I don't see the point in doing anything other than the carbon steel ones, actually, because they're (fairly) quick to make, and very cheap.

[stone3408]

Street sweeper brushes are sweet...I thought that I was the only one. They require a great deal less work to shape and make the best tension wrenches. They tend to be difficult to work with however and I mount them in an ink pen housing with epoxy for a more comfortabe feel. I like the windshield wiper insert idea.

[555mst555]

sorry but i think that u did not even make the pick your self.....u got the picture from google or something

[edfel01]

dosnt matter used his directions and it worked perfectly as long as he can explaine how to do it i dont care if he did it or not.

[epiphany_123]

Whats with the picture whats hapning in it?

[JKibs95]

A paper-bag head catches fire...

[milamber]

try this template

[yukas]

why the burned head?

[buster27]

the pic is funny wherd u get it?

[coffeeCupNz]

lol that's a great picture. hahaha i could laugh for hours looking at that. hahahaha

[RageAgainstJack15]

Hahahahaha that first picture is great

[andrew13]

what up wit da burning bag?

[joekickass345]

ladys stop fight over a burning bad jesus

[nave]

wow this is pretty vague

[kraM]

lol, I just got a set of Majestic's this sunday at a gun show. nothing fancy just a basic 6 pic set only cost $20.00 the guy orginaly wanted $25.00 ... their diferent from the ones in your picture

[jakee117]

everyone is stupid sometimes

_morons

lol just kidding

[ultrauber]

none of these comments are actually on the instructable. i think the pic of the burning bag distracts people from what youre actually trying to tell them. if i was you, i'd take it down.

[Full Frontal Graphic]

"were"... Never mind what he's telling us, the dude has a burning paper bag on his head!!!

[lukem]

what size allen wrench did you use?

[Bad Donut]

Wtfs wrong with you?! Any normal person doesnt put a burning bag on their head.

[zsout]

his name is assplosion, what did you expect?

[wingman246]

what's normal?

[Bad Donut]

Someone who doesn't think being suicidals funny.

[mr_bojiggler]

I think being suicidal is hilarious! Of course, the definition of "Suicidal" would have to be "commiting an act of being mentally challenged, causing death" in a sentence, it would be used like this: "The suicidal guy, put a paper bag on his head, and proceeded to set the bag on fire."

[wingman246]

well i wouldn't call what he's doing suicidal... suicidal is eating at McDonalds every meal for a year if that is even possible do.

[James (pseudo-geek)]

I came pretty close one year. needless to say, that was not a healthy year for me.

[James (pseudo-geek)]

then I went to rehab and they got me eating at Chipotle.

[buster27]

lolz lolololololol

[Bad Donut]

ROFL

[James (pseudo-geek)]

cant you tell thats photshopped. no one has enough endurance - or stupidity- to light a papr bag on fire thats on their head.

[buster27]

i do me and my friends plan on all doing it the same night and runing in front of cars!

[shooby]

If it is real, then presumably they put the bag on first, then lit it.

[Derin]

sheet metal on the inside

YAY CRAPPY SHEET METAL

[wingman246]

i beg to differ i have some friends who smack each other with folding chairs for the fun of it, and thats the least of their stupidities. They'd probably be stupid enough to soak it in gas first.

[buster27]

me 2

[tippmannphreak]

endurance? searously? must you train to put a burning bag on your head? what if your drunk?

[buster27]

im dum enuff 2 do it anyway

[James (pseudo-geek)]

at the time it seemed so, I see better now.

[Spense09]

apparentely this guy does

[locofocos]

me has stupidity, but maybe not endurance

[Aar000n3y]

You could easily put something fire resistant between your head and the bag and light it.

[James (pseudo-geek)]

true.

[Full Frontal Graphic]

Or just have someone else light it.

[Whaleman]

ohhhh man, you just made me want to make a video of me lighting a paper bag on my head. But I am not that stupid, I think.....

[Ribs]

I am.

[James (pseudo-geek)]

ha. I think it could be done, but hmmm

[Whaleman]

ha

[Whaleman]

well, i dont think im that stupid, but my friend might be......

[James (pseudo-geek)]

rofl

[Whaleman]

Sadly, I wasn't kidding. He once poked a hole in his wall because he was bored and tried to run up the wall like a ninja.

[James (pseudo-geek)]

ha!

[Loveofchaos]

well, i will put a bag on my head and light it just to prove you wrong! haha

[James (pseudo-geek)]

lol. for how long? oh and be sure not to wear hairspray, its extremely flammable.

[Loveofchaos]

i dont wear hairspray, jellied petrolium gives me the desired affect. lol

[buster27]

lolollololololollllllllz

[James (pseudo-geek)]

LOL

[Derin]

lol

[Bad Donut]

KEEP THIS THREAD GOIN!

[hiei5294]

k

[Bad Donut]

a year aint too bad

[extremegtafan]

Why not two years?

[howboutitbru]

i would do it, the bag is quite a lot bigger than his head if you can tell bythe picture or it looks like that to me so it wouldnt really even hurt until the flame got right to your head but i would do taht

[eamongll]

Nice Instructable. I did something similar to this a few years back but rather than using Hack-saw blades, I bought to sets of "Feeler Gauge's". It's a simple tool used to measure gap-widths. They're mostly used in engineering to measure the clearance between two parts. I chose them because they're chrome plated, inconspicuous and easily machined. Three years later and I've still got them.

[locofocos]

Ooh, that is a GOOD idea man..... cause you got like a few dozen to work with the size of a pocket knife. locofocos starts to want his own feeler gauge...

[Doctor What]

you know, if you actually wanted to burn a bag on your head, you could cover an area with hand sanitizer, a lot, and light the sanitizer on fire, usually when i do this on my hand, it doesn't burn. it might slow down the burning of the bag. probly would want someone with a fire extinguisher standing by.

[Doctor What]

by the way, i wouldn't do the hand thing if i were you, but if you wanted to, you would squeeze a glob of sanitizer in your hand, light the sanitizer on fire, and close your hand, real fast, when it gets hot.

[OverUnity]

I am surprized no one else mentioned as a readly available material bicicle or motorcycle spokes. I felt that was common knowlege.

[auzio]

come on man not every one has a broken bike or wheel lying around ok
its probably only "common knowlege" for you.

[Ribs]

you can buy spokes for like 3 rand at any bicycle shop in south africa

[adamthiede]

burning paper bag on head=death of everyone in building you're in.

[ich bin ein pyro]

did some googleing and found something, check this out

[THE_GEEK2007]

There is no link here. TGT

[ich bin ein pyro]

you know i think it was just how-to lock pick at wikipedia the link must not have been working right

[cudubh]

I was taught to make mine out of the street sweeper pins. Just walk along the gutter the day after the sweeps go through and if you have a sharp eye, you can collect a good dozen in 10 minutes. Use a dremil tool with grinding wheel to shape your pick and use another to make your tension bar. They're likely more redily available than spokes

[ich bin ein pyro]

great now all everybody needs is to make an instructable on how to lock-pick

[GutterClown]

I am a locksmith, but when I was bored as a kid I started picking locks with these things. Hacksaw picks are very much like using a sledge hammer to hit craft-nails. very brutal and bulky. If you ever touch a real pick, you'll never want to dirty your hands with a hacksaw pick ever again.

That said, these *do* work. If your picks don't work, chances are it's because you can't work them.

The only real hint I can give, is to use some wat\dry superfine grit sandpaper on the entire pick before using it. And make sure the shafts, handle, and pick heads are all smooth\round\whatever the shape. otherwise, with sharp and misshapen picks, you can damage the pins in the lock cylinder and get a pick stuck.

Have fun. and personally, my favorite pick is the Hook pick. you can get in and work individual pins, diamonds can't do that.

[Vendigroth]

i like the hook pick too, but i put a verrrry sligh concave dent into the end, so i can find and grip the pins better

[Czaezar]

Um.. You got that all from here:
http://www.gregmiller.net/locks/makelockpicks.html

[Pateena]

Thanks for the amusing instructions. Nice bag!!

[volcomdude16]

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! hehe.. monkey

[littlemog92]

i make my lock picks from hacksaw blades and bicycle spokes if you want a good tension wrench you should take a windshield wiper and and take the metal strips from it then bend them at a right angle and cut them these work great as tension wrenches and you can even make twist flex wrenches

[assplosionz]

well man i think its hilarious that there is only one person that realy gives a crap about my 4 or so spelling mistakes and it dosent hinder the instructable what so ever

[Vendigroth]

lol

[hawkdude61]

for real man. give it a rest. this isn't an instructable on how to spell. it's about lock picks! it doesn't matter too much if every word isn't perfect. i think that you are one of the few OCD enough to care.

[Andude]

who cares about da dam spellin, where not in scool!!

[James (pseudo-geek)]

lol. uf cors we aint woryd bout spelin, spelins fer tha stewdints.....wate, I is a stewdint.

[assplosionz]

Robotrix man i value your opinion... BUT commenting on my "spelling mistakes" what the hell, i dont mean to be rude but are you off your bloody meds mate i am currently in the process of making an instructable on lock picking... although you are almost right about sanding down the picks thats not always the case, i never sanded mine down and they never give me problems. if you would like to make your own instructable on this topic fine by me but dont criticise my instructable when you have probably not had much first hand experiance in this. cheers Tim

[Vendigroth]

sanding them down'd remove any burrs (fluffed up bits of metal) from the edge, amking them smoother and less likely to catch on pins, i don't think taking the paint off'd do anything. i sanded mine and then put bluing solution on them

[som3thing]

hah this is great its been what 4-5 months since my instructable came out and people are still commenting on it.
mustt..makke...neww... innstructable...
oh and "assplosions" is = 2 "som3thing" times pi R squared

[Robotrix]

Not had much first hand experience in what, running spell check? If you are currently in the process of making ANY instructable, it should contain words that are spelled right. Would you read a textbook where every fourth word was misspelled and the author used a combination of !'s and 1's in his fury to tell you about something? Yeah, i'm off my meds, because you couldn't take the ten seconds it would have required to make this more readable.

[Vendigroth]

It's an instructable detailing the production of lock picks. Not an excerpt from a textbook on grammar. As long as it gets the point across, I don't think spelling or grammar really matter, as long as it's understandable.

[RobbyTheSheef]

It's the mans first instructable, cut the man some slack already. I'm all for semi-proper grammar, but for gods sake man, it's the frickin' internet. If a combination of !s and 1s is unreadable to you, then I'm afraid it is YOU who is a moron. If you couldn't grasp the meaning of a sentence because it contained "neways", then you sir, are are dumb.

[assplosionz]

hey cheers mate that site is excellent oh and no spelling mistakes to complain about : )

[Austinisi]

also try:

http://www.locksport.com/LSIGuide/Launcher.html

everything you just said is in there, but with pictures.

[Austinisi]

Also try:

http://www.locksport.com/LSIGuide/Launcher.html

Everything you just said is in there, but with pictures.

[dijital101]

hacksaw blades are great but they don't have a whole lot of tensile strength. I prefer to use a drywall tape knife that wal-mart stocks. It looks like a really wide putty knife but the blade can be unscrewed and it is a 6"x8" sheet of spring steel. Yeah, it's more work to make the picks with because you have to cut out the handles as well but the first time you snap off a hacksaw pick in a lock you'll be more than happy to put in the extra time.

[Robotrix]

You shouldn't need a whole lot more strength. Odds are you're using too much tension. Lock picking should use very light, very gentle pressure, just enough to get the pins to bind.

[Sidney Floyd]

well, now i can open my backdoor in (and i bullshit you not) 3 seconds

[assplosionz]

Robotrix man i value your opinion... BUT commenting on my "spelling mistakes" what the hell, i dont mean to be rude but are you off your bloody meds mate i am currently in the process of making an instructable on lock picking... although you are almost right about sanding down the picks thats not always the case, i never sanded mine down and they never give me problems. if you would like to make your own instructable on this topic fine by me but dont criticise my instructable when you have probably not had much first hand experiance in this. cheers Tim

[assplosionz]

yea i have heard comments on street sweeper blades being used but where i live in australia our street sweepers have plastic bristles so thats a pity... and yes hacksaw blades are a bit weak but i deem them to be the strongest readly available material that i have come across, they have good lateral strength which is all you need unless you are bendind your picks from side to side alot peace out Tim

[assplosionz]

oh and sorry about the "!" in the way of the rake ill try to figure out how to get rid of it. Cheers Tim

[assplosionz]

oh yea petervG as for that site you mentioned i forgot to pay some tribute to it but i was a bit rushed so here you are: thanx goes out to www.gregmiller.net where i aquired some photos for my instructable cheers Tim

[PetervG]

Teehee, I've seen this tutorial before on the original site. I'm annoyed by that paper bag mask.

[WolvesOfWar]

nice, ill make them soon

[NaTeB1]

Nice instructable, now just show me how to use em( also could you try to get rid of the stupid little box thing with the i in it so I can see what the rake tool looks like)Thanks

[Sidney Floyd]

Hey tim, got the istructable out before me you bastard gropist :) michael, your lord and master