Open Sesame

When I was 13 years old, I witnessed a local locksmith enter the front door of a friends home using lock picks with ease. To a 13 year old boy, this was very intriguing. So, what do I do? I try to make my very own 'set' of lock picks with my fathers tin snips and a scrap piece of soft aluminum. Anyone reading this with experience in lock picking of any kind has already predicted that my first attempt at picking open a lock failed miserably (true). However, my first failure was more of a step forward than it was a failure. I became, to my mothers description, obsessed with picking locks in more than just my spare time. I made time for picking locks.

Before I could pick the few locks that my household contained however, I had to step up the level of my equipment. So what does a now nearly 14 year old boy do? He turns to the internet, Google search engine rather. With about as much research as an excited kid can handle in a few days, I dismantled one of my fathers hacksaws (much to his dismay) and began grinding away on our Dewalt bench top grinder. With an hour or so of carbon grindings on my hands, I had what I thought to be a hook pick, an S-Rake, and a tension wrench made from an allen key. After a few returns to the grinder to make the tension wrench small enough to fit into the key way, I began to pick away, with semi decent tools.

At 14, with very little (none at all) experience, minimal research of technique and a drive to succeed, I picked open my first lock in what felt like half an hour. It popped open close to the time I had set to give up and come back later, though thankfully I didn't have to put it down. This blog will describe, teach, demonstrate and illustrate everything that I am capable of at this moment and hopefully more than that in the near future.

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