lockpicks from hacksaw blades

[antagonist]

I watched a video on youtube detailing a simple method of making decent lockpicks out of hacksaw blades. I am currently in the process of trying this. Has anyone else tried anything like this?

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/GVV8tvE-B7E&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/GVV8tvE-B7E&rel=1</a>

[Tachyon]

Altalp and I have.

[Altalp]

I make my picks out of windsheild wiper blade inserts.  You know the thin metal strip inside wiper blades..    They are stainless steel and hold up quite well, and there is less metal to grind away. I have some made from saw blades, they are ok, but they tarnish and kinda rust. In my opinion wiper blades work best for me.

[Tachyon]

You can also use a hacksaw blade (probably a wiper blade insert too) to make a slim jim and pop open car doors.

[antagonist]

I went to the shop and cut out a few trial picks yesterday. They turned out good enough. A friend of mine just happened to toss some windshield wipers while I was there. I salvaged four of those metal strips from them and I bent them into tension wrenches. I like the idea of making picks from them though. I could easily make about 10 picks from one metal strip if I made just the tips and attached them to some sort of re-usable handle.

[Nod]

The kid in the video has man titties.

[InternetJunky]

Sorry to bring up a old thread, but I am finally ready to do this!I got a bench grinder, a dremmel, gloves and safety glasses, I paid over a $100 for all of it. I got all this from my local Ace Hardware and I just spent $20 on hacksaw blades, but then I find out I cant use them because they are "shatter proof".What ones should I look for next time I'm in there or will any other type do because I'm almost out of money and I want to have enough left so I can get a good multi-tool.

Also there are some other picking tools that seem cool to make, but maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.I would sort of like to make a set of jigglers, a tubular lock tension tool and whatever else I can make with some hacksaw blades or windshield wiper metal strips.

Ill be using templates off this site http://www.slingadeski.shaigar.net/lockpicking/Templates/

Ill try and post pictures so you can judge if they are good or not.

[Tachyon]

Those must be pretty good fucking safety glasses!

[InternetJunky]

Haha I meant all the stuff

Joined a lockpicking forums so Ill try to get some help there, but if I wanted to twist the metal(for the handle on the tension wrench) could I do that on the stove instead of using a blowtorch because the employees at Ace give me weird looks and ask questions when I buy weird stuff like hacksaws and blank keys. Also what other type of metal object would hold up well under the bench grinder because some of the stuff I plan to make are wider than the hacksaw blades.Ill post pics by the end of the week hopefully.

[InternetJunky]

Theres my first three. I already successfully picked a lock on this cash box thing in my closet and it was pretty easy.I plan on making others since I have like 30 hacksaw blades left.One thing though, if I were to make wafer picks then are these the right size?

[DayZiro]

in replying to the original poster, I've also used that method to make lock picks.

It's worked out very well for me, I can make good picks routinely now. One thing I ran into at first was some of the cheapest hacksaw blades bent under normal picking conditions, I went to Lexon hacksaw blades and it was fine after that, they give much better feedback too. I make mostly hooks and falle-style picks as they work best on my locks.

http://www.crypto.com/photos/misc/picks/falle-deep-curve.html

This was the video that initially got me interested in lockpicking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auQbi_fkdGE

something I noticed was that there was ripples where the teeth were on bendable hacksaw blades. Don't get the ones with ripples over the teeth!

I guess this doubles as my introduction post

[Woofcat]

My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself., a video from my account. My worlds are colliding.

If you guys want I can hunt around for a full set of falle templates.

These look great though. http://www.slingadeski.shaigar.net/lockpicking/Templates/Falle%20Hooks/Falle%20Inspired.pdf
Hmm, maybe it's time I go waste more money on blades and wheels.