![]() ![]() ![]() A lock picking robot that completes the circuit between the human picker and the mechanical lock. Just a unit, an engine, a needle, and a Hell of a lot of vibration. There's no art, no eloquence, no style or passion. This is the moment of the Electric Pick Gun (EGP) a tool that does nothing but open locks. When you're staring the bottom line in the eyes, you don't want to be meditating! And when there's a job to do time means money, not a relaxing pleasure. But there comes a time when none of the above is required. It can in this sense be a beautiful, calming, almost meditative thing.Īll well and good. Yes, lock picking can bring out the patient craftsman in us all, tirelessly working over minute details, it appeals to the romantic image of the watchmaker working by candlelight, hunched over the object of his obsession, way into the night. It's a pleasure, sometimes - as I pointed out in my last blog - to spend time on things in a culture that is obsessed with speed, that is obsessed with getting things done and moving on. Hand-filing new patterns from scratch onto blank keys, measuring fractions of fractions with vernier calipers, and polishing the cuts with wet n dry for days on end. The time I have spent on Bumping - were you to add all those hours up - is even more insane. It is, I must say, the hardest lock I have ever picked.And I have only ever picked it once! This of course creates two shearlines, one on each side. A dimple lock like no other, where each pin in each two-pin stack is separate and opposed to the other, they push into the lock by a spring, each and made even trickier by one of the springs in each stack being stronger than the other one. I once spent four hours straight trying to Single Pin Pick the legendary Banham dimple lock. ![]()
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