I find this lacking after having done this for years and years now. Here is a bit of advice that ive found to be a game changer. Get a small cup of oil and a blow torch, plier to hold the wrench and lastly a piece of sandpaper. Heat the wrench up until it gets bright cherry red and than quench the wrench in the oil. Now this next bit is important so dont skip it. Take the sand paper and buff all the burnt carbon off of the wrench until its shiney again. Get it all off. Than your goin to hold the wrench with the pliars a good bit further from the flame. Rotate the wrench so your heating the wrench very slowly and heating it up as evenly as possible. Slow and even is the key. Once the wrench begins to blue, quench it in the oil again and buff it until its shiney. You now habe a wrench thats been heat treated and tempured and is now much more resiliant and closer to spring steel. Its going to make a world of difference i promise.

It's been 2 years and still no content 😢

This is still confusing.

been some time, but the 180 tip really help me out

I could do it faster than this guy and have a sandwich while he is still trying to file his key and enjoy my sandwich lol

In the 1980 S I could impression a BMW in five minutes and I could do the same thing with sabb and VW and I have had the same file for over 30 years and it has never let me down and the only thing I need is a file with a small pair of vice grips and the proper key blank I’m very good at impressions. The most important thing to remember never oil the lock while doing this because it will make it hard to to get to see the marks.

Thx now i can die

Newby lock sport person here. But I was a (Cdn. & U.S.A.), patent attorney and registered patent agent, (retired 14 years ago). I may be able to offer some searching tips for patent searches. We often searched the technical literature and archaic patent resources during novelty searches often to discover prior art which we used to invalidate patents for infringement lawsuits and many other uses. Novelty is an essential requirement for a patent. For example, the South African patent office and Belgian offices were wonderful for discovering all manner of invaluable obscurities. Etc. (for example all of Jacque Yves Cousteau's patents were technically invalid because his technology had been discovered and patented in the 1860's by another inventor. No one had discovered this information until long after his patents had expired). Feel free to contact me if you wish more information. Just had another thought, Old patent litigation reports may yield additional valuable information. Also, Scientific American magazine (first published Aug. 1845). may be a good search resource for old technology.

Very interesting video, replete with scholarship and knowledge Thanks. The figure at 29:26 is a diagram from a U.S. patent. What is the patent number? Thanks. The Schlage key that you displayed is not patentable. It is not a new idea and can be shown that such keys were well known over a hundred years ago So the patent requirement of novelty is not met. In addition, the addition of the right angled accretion may be useful but it does not display sufficient invention to merit a patent. It is "obvious". The concept of three dimensional copy right was thrown out by the courts in England about 20 plus years ago. And it has faced similar difficulties in other jurisdictions since.

Hey Schuyler, thanks for all your vids. The De Forest seems the can-pick-anything pick including those with non-extreme bittings... your thoughts on that?

I know some place that has 72 different keys 🥲

i m 12 years late 🥲

Very helpful. Getting a good enough shim was the issue. No security tags like that available to me. I used foiled pills plastic edge (The kind you pop out, perfect thickness and rigidity)

Thanks for the video. I have picked a lot of locks, but I picked up an American Lock series 1205 and am on that struggle bus with using rakes. Can it be done using any rake? Thank you for your time!

That didn't really explain Masterkeying??? You showed how 32 different keys could open that lock (when all you want is two) but didn't explain how a single master-key can open dozens of otherwise unique locks

I purchased a number of the I-Beam type Fichet locks around 1985, still have them, a few Cam Locks as well as a Heavy Duty Rim Cylinder. They hit the US market around the same time as the DOM Dimple Key locks here in the US. Not sure, but I think I recall NJT using the DOM locks on receptacles in the Hoboken Station back in mid 80's. But then both companies just disappeared from the US market. I recall watching a documentary located somewhere in the UK on a sanatorium, using Fichet locks on every door. Again, 1980's. Very, very tough to find those Fichet locks now a days. Every now and then I pull those locks out to have a look. I purchased both the DOM and Fichet from a sales Rep that stopped in once a month with new items for sale. He handled a lot of non US products that were hard to find back then. Name of the company was, Landersman Group, long gone. Still have all my DOM Dimple locks as well. Wish I had purchased more of both lock types.

Where did you go to get your picks?

Boost the audio.

Great video. It would be nice if I see a dimple key impressioning... Not only the foil impression but also an actual dimple key made by hand

Can somebody tell me what file he was using.

Soma fm

Why make them? They are not that expensive to buy?

I'm too high to comprehend this

I remember when i was 7 one of the maintenance men left their key in the lock as when they did maintenance on our neighbors place so i yoibked it before they noticed and at the time i never thought about it but nothing happened it worked because i tested it at our door never used it other than that but they never changed locks or alerted anyone so they basically endangered the entire complex

Sooo how do you pick it

Clear as mud

What type of lock would this be is a safe of some sort

Holy smokes you're alive

Perfect! nuff said.

It's sorta baffling that locks really haven't moved on much despite them being compromised.

Thanks, found this old videos because it's in McNally's playlist. Nice

I just tried to rake a lock with a very high cut spikes, and it stucked dead in my lock and it took me over 30 minutes to manage pulling it out with some other tools and exactly knowledge of what just happened, it turned out that the first spike of the rake went far behind the pins cuz i was doing it with strength, not precision, and because of the high cut rake build I couldn’t just pull it out by turning it a little bit upwards, so, if youre already doing it, make in gentle, without brutality and push that thing too deep in😏 i tried it after that with wery low force and opened it within 5 sec, anyway, im 100% sure if that happened with a one-sided rake it would be much easier to handle this issue, does anybody know why they put 1 or two spikes at the other side?

In case somebody is reading this these days, you should look at the work of KZbin channel "idanhurja". That's another Finnish guy with very creative DIY picks that can open Abloy Classic, Abloy Exec, Abloy Profile, Abloy Easy and Abloy Sento which he openly demonstrates. He also has some videos about Protect but as far as I know, he hasn't yet accomplished blind picking Protec even though he has create a tool that should make it possible. He also put together Abloy Classic handback style lock with Abloy Exec parts inside, which I think was pretty cool hack.

30:17 very sad that no one laughed at that joke, i thought it was funny

Was just reminded of the money I lost on the kickstarter project and your complete failure to even attempt to communicate what happened to everyone who gave you $90k.

Watching this old video while putting together a Southern Specialties order, and sure enough he's using their picks.

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I had no idea that masterkeying weakens locks. That’s pretty cool, thanks for the good vid

Hi Master 👍🔓💯 Very very good video you made. Good information about this platform of the p.lock I make tool for this cylinder and another profile. Not easy but very interesting 😉. Good luck Master 👍🔓💯

Very good

Great to see you posting again!

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Schuyler just dropping off facts to the locksport world so we are aware of the amazing information some great creators have out there! Artichoke videos are so full of information that I can't stand missing a word and often watch multiple times 🤘

Historical facts, technical details, actual picking, what's not to love? As an aside, "pick proof," I fu**ing want one now!

Good to see you back, Yeah I been an Artichoke2000 follower for a while. Can't go wrong with viewing his vids if I can't sleep.

Wow Some of this stuff is a work of art . Definitely intimating

Okay for a bit of context… Schuyler Towne’s lock picking videos were the first videos that I watched that got me into locksport. He is the reason I exist in this domain and my content is in a way a direct result/continuum of his work. Anyone that views Schuyler’s videos can instantly recognize and feel his infectious love for locks. It is absolutely surreal to have him talk about me in this manner. I am beyond honored at the beautiful things you are saying and I am blessed to have you as a friend.

Good to see you buddy, can tell your on Paternity leave as looking from top half of your body, looks like your the breast feeder 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂 Great to see you again Schuyler 👍👍

Dude! You have "Never Tease A Weasel" in the shelf! You are a legend! Why you should never tease a weasel is a lesson I learned early in life, and have always carried with me.

Thanks for the recommendation, the clips look promising. I don't know if I'll sub yet, but I'm definitely checking out his channel. Meanwhile sounds like life is GREAT for you right now, I'm HAPPY for you.