DIY Lockpicks - Funky hacksaw blade design.

[@keymad4]

your lying lockpicking is totally legal in the UK ,I'm a locksmith living in the UK and you are wrong PAL , but it is real good you are encouraging people to get involved in hobbies, so good on you.

[@agreen9813]

Dude… the shear fact that you ranted about Chip & Dales Rescue Rangers (one of my favorite cartoons growing up has me subscribing.

[@E-BikingAdventures]

According to LPL, Linda Hamilton did pick the lock properly but the lock was modified to open very easily. He could tell by excessive rotation on the core.

[@keymad4]

If you had a green Carbide grit grinding wheel it will grind the metal down ten times faster.

[@victoryT_T]

D: !!! what a genius

[@richard102879]

Harbor freight carries that bench grinder for around 40$. I didn't want to use any of my good grinders for work so I picked up this exact bench grinder from HF to be a sacrificial work tool and it's been to hell and back twice and is still going. Definitely a good buy

[@vk6op648]

Ive been doing this for years! Small world..used to have a channel for it but pulled it down in '10.

[@FoxxOTG]

Im really trying to push "Ethical Education" so I have videos from years ago if you dig into my channel where I am doing less-detailed videos mainly because of the "Lock picking means you are a criminal" stigma people always jump to. My S.O. got into picking padlocks, and with a much higher success rate than I ever could, all while sitting on the sofa watching a movie. Nothing criminal about it. I refuse to do any shim videos though. Sorry but I have to draw the line there. The only things shims do is allow people with no skill or talent to easily bypass a security measure. Nuh-uh. I dont like the idea of "the right tools in the wrong hands" and have to fight myself on a regular basis on what content I can and can not release because of what others may do.

[@vk6op648]

Hi Foxx, I hear you. Thats why I pulled my channel. I got the feeling it might cause me some issues at the time so I decided to be the grey man. I was a follower of the guys at Toool and got into it through them. But I've done a lot of stuff, homebrew bogota picks and bumping, impressioning. I have a couple of Lishi key cutters aswell. I wasn't much good at impressioning. Bumping is easy. Picking is the most fun though. I caused a lot of people around me to change their choice of lock though, as soon as they saw how easy they were to defeat. 150EU locks opened in a few seconds, doesn't give you a warm fuzzy feeling.

[@FoxxOTG]

+VK6OP it makes me warm and fuzzy like a whisky buzz. Some people associate cost with quality, until they see first hand that not all expensive locks are actually any damn good. I may suck at picking, but when im making my own lock picks I can get a better idea of the internal mechanical quality of the lock. If *I* can pop the lock its a terrible piece of shit. Some people need a good slap of reality at time.

[@wayout6092]

lock picking is legal in the UK, including England.

[@55ATA3]

Great info on making picks. Thanks for sharing this video.

[@SusanMalone-k9x]

so good

[@rationalbushcraft]

Only carrying lock picks in public is illegal in the UK. There are locksport companies and meeting in the UK.

[@FoxxOTG]

You know I've gotta do the default disclaimer. It's a fun sport that nobody understands as a sport. I explain to people lockpicking, it's soduku for people that have a more of mechanical mind than mathematical one.

[@Carpenters_Canvas]

I’m sure the lock was set up with some easy pins but still an awesome story , or did she do it to a real lock ? I don’t know for a fact

[@usernamemykel]

Heat shrink tubing - better than Plasti-Dip.

[@59KYHighlander]

I found some metal cable ties today. Ty-Rap. 200 mm long and very thin spring steel. I think they might make a decent pick set. Have you seen them?

[@FoxxOTG]

Actually that is a pretty interesting idea, those may work. Only one way to find out, give it a try. If anything they could be made into feeler picks used for bypassing briefcase locks.

[@Uniquettt]

useing the templates from the link you sugested works well

[@ndoghouse6853]

Quench the crap out of that steel and get it brittle as you can. Then temper it in the over at 400 degrees F for about an hour. By torching it and letting it cool slowly you just softened it and lost lots of good feedback. Your tension wrench is going to wear out much faster because it is soft. Why I know this? Ask any knife maker.

[@GavTatu]

i made a few from the banding.. not very good. the sweepers blades were better. and then i just got a really cheap set from amazon to play with.

[@FoxxOTG]

I find banding steel is good for tention tools but you really have to sand them smooth so they don't bite. It's fun to try a new idea, pass or fail.

[@sting0103]

It's not illegal in the United Kingdom to pick locks, it's only illegal to pick locks that don't belong to you.

[@FoxxOTG]

cool I wasn't 100% clear on that and wouldn't want anyone getting in trouble for what I feel is just a fun hobby. I had to "insert default disclaimer here" ya' know? Too often people associate lock picking as a criminal-only activity and that just stings. For me, it is literally a mechanical puzzle. Some people like Sudoku, I like making lock picks and keys for lost locks. At this point my friends give me their old locks they have no keys for, because they know I enjoy this. But again, its just a silly hobby of mine, there are people that are WAY more skilled than I am, and I have a lot of respect for it.

[@CountDoucheula]

You're also not allowed to carry a set of picks in public. That would be seen as going prepared to engage in b&e. Although, as always in England, it's down to intent. If you get stopped in a multistorey car park at 3 in the morning with a slim jim and a set of jigglers you're pretty fucked. I often have just a single pick, a small double ended torsion bar and a practice lock in my pocket, to idle away the time in queues and whatnot. If I were to be questioned, I'm pretty sure I could talk my way through because of context. Although I don't tend to engage in nefarious activities, so I don't really get stopped by police.

[@samsmet3121]

Same goes in france

[@mariosantizo4099]

It is Better to cut the steel than to grind it down !! It makes less heat !!!

[@chucknagillum1221]

Cartoons in the 70's were better; I had a quick thought when you were dipping the saw blades in the sun lit glass of water. You should make a DIY spectroscope, I'd be interested to see how toxic the paint and metal is from those blades.

[@FoxxOTG]

That's an interesting point... You might have just given my S.O. another reason to be grumpy at me for building more weird lab gear.

[@kodiham7532]

After that I'd rather buy a set.

[@EpicBigfoot]

Nice. Some guys can't even work a g-spot.

[@FoxxOTG]

Not hard at all to find with a google search. I havent hit this in years: www.headbands.com/gspot/ great tool. Oh, wait, you meant the OTHER g-spot?! Easy, use a shotgun. It will hit everything at once and definitely make her pop. Wait, we are still talking about lock picking right?

[@EpicBigfoot]

hahahaha. I think we have a similar sense of humor. I'll be more semantically specific from now on, or maybe not. It's more fun this way. I'm sure you're knowledge ventures into the obscenely esoteric. Gee-whiz I've learned so much today.

[@FoxxOTG]

My skills are equally varied as they are useless. There is so much I don't know, I don't know I even I don't know it yet. Ya know? (When I say that people say it sounds very Captain jack Sparrow. My trhench coat doesnt help.)

[@EpicBigfoot]

Foxx D'Gamma I can imagine the jack sparrow thing but I don't know if he's as wise as people may think he is. Honestly I don't know much about semen, smelling like pancake batter, it's gross. Also, I too have no clue what I know or don't know, and so on. I think it was soccerteased that said that one that knows that they don't know, knows more than one who thinks he knows, because at least the one who knows that he doesn't know, knows that. Fuckin' Dr. Philosophy is difficult to monologue in text form, on a phone, and the entire time wondering if I've wasted my time and energy to express to you that I'm on the level. Anyway, that thing about not knowing what it is that I don't know about is what got me interested in computering ™ and also that it might be true that there is next to nothing that can't be solved by the right code and hardware. Fuck, where am I. Give me back my Jacket!

[@usernamemykel]

Jiggle, jiggle!

[@kennyball3956]

PLZ SEE UK lockpickers UK bumpkeys etcetc.....big scene over here

[@darkshadow1983]

Good way to make picks but tou should worry about your fingers!!!! Having your fingers this close to a grinder wheel grinding britle metal that can snap and remove fingers on their way to outer space!!!! Ive been doing picks with hacksaw blade for years and the safer way is with an angle grinder with the hacksaw in a vice and with ppe including gloves!!!!!

[@zohancargotis2109]

And you should take off your headset when you start to work

[@steadfasttherenowned2460]

Do you play guitar?

[@mikehauk6079]

Not sure if he respond to your guitar question. No no answer on the video page so I will think he did not. Not a big deal. Being a fellow KZbinr, I feel compelled to answer for him (because personally, being ignored grinds the hell out of my hacksaw blades). Your question, "do you play the guitar?" My proxy response for the video maker, "... Guitar, no. But... I do play with myself. If that help. Idk. I mean... It help me as there is noone round here to help me...." Hope that least answer your as well as anyone else who too interested in what his response would have been. Have a good one. Be safe. No BS, Don't spend money on buying premade picks if truly interested, esp from starting from the basics. I do believe in making your very own vs buying you start off, actually give you a better understanding of what it should truly look like, how thick the pick should really be, the actually feeling you encounter when actual picking and ultimately, combining all together and reaching the point of knowing hands down do work best for you. I make TONS of my picks using hacksaw blades. Tons using street sweeper brushes, I have too had good result from paperclips that I have fashioned using micro pair needle nose pliers (ultimately, bending the paperclip in half completely, where both sides are touching/ laying atop itself, I bend it to the shape of a bogata rake THEN I use a very fine grit Emory cloth then in fact, solder the now layered paperclip to form it into 1 single piece. I then finish it off once again sanding it smooth and THINNER. Both of that matter as you want your pick to very smoothly slide into the pick without binding and the soldering give the paperclip the strength it NEED or else the paperclip will just bend and loose shape and dexterity.

[@mikecranford1927]

So I play electric predominantly but acoustic as well and both I use picks on, just curious but is it because of the nails on his right hand being long while his left are kept short that makes you think he might play?

[@mikecranford1927]

@@mikehauk6079 you're not sure if he responded....how tf could you not be sure it friggin says it or it says nothing, looks to me from your long winded homoerotic diatribe answering a number of points on yourself (that nobody asked for btw) that you just wanted to talk about male masterbation and talk about yourself.

[@samsmet3121]

too long vid.

[@stephenflood4526]

Great video, but for god sake put some safety gear on ,boots,trousers and gloves,or you'll end up in hospital missing digits from hands or feet

[@jonatanweldu4854]

You talk too much