How a weekend lock picker can help make your home safer—or at least help you talk to a locksmith with confidence.

Lock picking is as old as locks themselves, and is enjoyed as a hobby and practical skill worldwide. While it has been tainted in many people's minds as something only done by criminals, it is in ...

You can learn the basics of lock picking from a GIF, but for a more nuanced look at the techniques required to actually get a lock open without the key, check out NightHawkInLight’s latest ...

There are many practical and legal reasons to learn lock picking, (we covered this last week in our guide on how to use your dark side for good ) but ...

However, [Sean] has demonstrated how to create a lock picking set with ordinary paperclips in the video embedded at the end of this post.

Ksnewells basically just replaces the file on his multitool with a lock pick set. He measures, then drills through the lock pick set to get every lined up, and then pieces everything together with ...

There are worse things you can make a lockpick set out of. After you’ve secured two bobby pins, one for the tension wrench and one for a small hook pick.

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