(104) Checkers and Chess - Making My First Challenge Lock 

Epic pins!

I actually watched the lock picking lawyer pick your chess and checkers lock first then just had to see you put it together. Absolutely incredible how much detail you pack into such a tiny item! And the fact that you made these by hand with a dremel just makes it even more awesome. I like the ideas you come up with. A real inspiration.

Crazy looking pins, and quite a piece of work for a 1st challenge lock. Very Nice !!!

Bravo buddy,as said on the forum those pins are a thing of beauty. The proof of the pudding though will be in the picking 😉👍👍👍

Over here from the lockpickinglawyer! This is beautiful work. I am glad I got moved in your direction! I'm excited to see more of you work and I hope we get to see you work with the dremel!

So impressive, the design, idea and the fact you made them with a dremel! Nice job! I've played chess (badly) a long time and I'm very new to lockpicking, just picked 3 acrylic locks which are very easy (even without looking). Got some real ones coming in the post. It's inspiring to know what you can do with a dremel, also how you did the cutaway lock with hand tools. Especially for us living in a small flat.

Very well done making your first challenge lock buddy and WOW!!!! You have done an incredible job with those pins ;o))))

Very cool! Congrats on ur first challenge lock. Much better than my first attempt. 😂👍👍

Beautiful pins. Very nice idea. Great job.

That lock is so cool. Those pins are a work of art. Great job.

Neat! And, inevitably, you will need to give it a *check, mate.* Moving on.....

I wanna have a go at picking this lock of yours now. It'll be interesting once you have some more tools to do a full pinning. Impression and cut video. I dunno if you're gonna go full on locksmith in the hobby, but I'd love to see someone take their RU-vid videos up a notch and show off the entire trade.

Amazing work of art.. I'm really impressed! Great job!!!

"Murphy Ball", it is an anti bump measure. You have to use a lot of tension to overcome it so pins bind.

Just WOW! I Like such challanges!

Absolutely outstanding, they're works of art. Looking forward to the (unbelievably light-handed) pick.

Wow, that's some skillz right there.

just watched your vid, very nice work you have done there. excellent...

great pins and good job I'd love to have a go at picking it 👍

Amazing work, sir! Predictibly, I would love to see a whole chess set!

well done very nice pins,thank you

Lovely pins and congratulations on pinning your first Challenge Lock 😀 . A suggestion. Get yourself a Follower with notched end. It makes pinning a lot easier because the notch wraps around the pin chamber making it way easier to place wafers and pins without them falling over or off the spring.

The last "pin" isn't a pin. You can see in the core that the round indentation is only for the ball bearing with a very strong steel spring and doesn't go all the way through to where the key would interact with it physically. This is a 5 pin lock. The 6th slot only helps hold the core aligned when removing the key by snapping it back perfectly upright to make removing it easier. It could also make tensioning the core a little more confusing for a picker.

Beautiful pins. Great idea to make them according to a theme - wonderful craftsmanship. Have you picked it meanwhile? Easy or impossible? By the way the ball bearing goes in a little dent in the plug, possibly to let the plug snap at the key-removal position. It's a five pinner only. Thanks for another inspiring video :-)

Hey, I have a Dremel 200i and I bought a custom keyless chuck and even filed the tip down so that I can grab a pin easier, but I can't get it to spin perfectly to act as a mill for filing pins down. Is this because I need a more expensive Dremel tool or is there a trick to getting the pins to spin perfectly so that when you file them, they are symmetrical all the way around instead of lop-sided?

That was impressive work dude.

what a awesome job i cant wait to see you pick it and you made them with a dremell fantastic workmanship i really cant wait to watch you pick it now 😁

beautiful!

your first!! YOUR FIRST!! I'm sorry...I'm sorry, no I'm not jealous..... I am envious though... lol. very well done!

If one were to put the bishop, queen or pawn into the bible inverted, with their head facing the key pins, I assume a wafer would not be needed. However I'm unsure whether the rounded head in contact with the top of the key pin would make picking easier, for instance by making the shear line more forgiving. One of the things that most fascinates me about these masterpieces is that they may act as a complex multiple element spool/barrel/serrated pin all in one tiny package. I'd imagine the picker would get a whole load of weird feedback as each vertical segment of the pin reaches the shear line, particularly if they don't know what's inside. I have several sets of these pins from Sparrows but the reason I don't know the answer yet is that I'm not competent enough yet to properly finesse and appreciate the nuanced feedback; and more importantly, I am still too heavy handed with both my tension and picking. I'd hate to ruin the pins after all the effort you and Sparrows put into making them. In any event, when I do come to pin up these little marvels, I'll almost certainly chicken out and top-load them into practice locks that have grub screws (such as my Revolver).

Well done

I’d love to see a video of you making those pins 👌🏽

Great idea :)

Very well done :)

That is beyond cool! nice job man!! Now I want to see someone pick it :) I can see that going either way (easy or hard). seriously though. that is very unique and very very nice, well done!

That was awesome, great vid, 👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌😊

nice job! !!!!

great once again looks like thats my next little job to TRY (lol) .............

I have a question... It looks like the key resting with it's keypins, say at around 10:39, I see 5 clear key pins and it looks like a weird last pin, the one furthest from the keyhole. I would imagine that would be where the ball bearing would rest. Would that have affected the lock at all?

Really fantastic job on those pins. They look great! Did you happen to notice that the core is a 5 pin core? The last "Hole" in the core appears to just be a detent for that ball bearing you pulled out. So unless I am seeing something totally wrong on the video, your last pin (The one "Standard" pin) is not doing anything in the lock whatsoever.

Excellent pins!! I love the idea!! I would really enjoy a shot at picking that someday!! hopefully you are sending it out to go around :-)

As I already said to you Lock Noob, your new pins look amazing :D. Repinning looked a little bit like a torture and I did ask myself why I didn't (or have I?) have supplyed you already with a pinning follower ;). We have to change this next year hehe ;). As KnowsPicking already said, your 6th driver won't come into play as there is only a little dent in the core for the ball...and you're pretty lucky that it is not bigger ;)). Kepp your great ideas coming, I'm happy looking forward :).

Can you show us how you made the pins please

Nice m8 i like that👍

Beautiful. Everyone is gonna want you to make some now.

Love the pins. But one question. Why master wafers? Will that not make the picking easier. Any joy with the padlock yet. Another great vid. Thanks mate..

Great pins, wonder how it will pick

How does one acquire such a piece?

send this to bosnianbill

nice very nice pins lock Noob

send it to Bosnian bill he'd love picking it

Cool, but evidently not so much of a challenge... LPL picked it in under a minute... Then again he is very good at picking