Still can’t explain what I enjoy about these videos. I don’t know if it’s the satisfaction of opening a lock without a key, your smooth monotone voice, or those clean ass hands. My kids and I enjoys watching you pick these locks. Keep up the good work!
@LockPickingLawyer Dearest Hero, I did something yesterday! My wife and I bought a veterinary clinic. Due to staff turnover during a part-time phase before us, nobody could get into the drop-safe at the front. We had been not using it. This thing was.. beefy. Digital keypad, no obvert key override. I decided to try to tackle it and took my modest collection of picks and tensioners and some extra wiper insert. My first step was to look for screws. I didn't see any but under the battery tray were two tiny (~#0) phillips. I pulled them put and off the keypad slid. I found no keyway, so i pulled off two more screws for the mounting bracket. Under this was a rubber plug. Had I not been a viewer, I would have missed it. I tipped it out with a pocket knife. The steel on the door was a good 1/2 inch thick, and at the bottom was a + shaped steel piece with brass behind it. I knew what that was! I rotated the shield and a keyway saw light for the first time in a long time. + with the inside edges beveled. It was a pain to tension, but the wide inside made it very accessible. I counted only 2 pins per side. The hardest part was making a tensioner deep enough to get in there and with such an angle that it could actually turn the core. I grabbed my wave rake and went around the core once, and felt a false set :-) The std hook found the three noncompliant pins and in just a few minutes I had it open. There was only 100 dollars in change/small bills inside- but it felt like absolute treasure. 4 more screws showed me the mechanism. On the locking body there was a 6 digit code- a master code. I used that as a way in to create a new user code. We got the safe back. Dr. Wife was very happy. Found 100 bucks we didn't know we had. I picked a keyway I had never laid eyes on before. It was a good day. I honestly attribute 80 percent of my physical security knowledge to you, Bosnian Bill, and Deviant. Thank you for being a great teacher. Now to go CC this to BB :-) Sincerely, Matt.
LOCK : }Has Paracentric Keyways, 4-Dimensional Spools, Tiny Dragon Inside Pin 23 { LPL : Not that challenging a pick, especially if you have the Tiny Spear of Rethu that Bosnian Bill and I Scryed. I wouldn't recommend this for a toddler's tricycle hitch.
I had to come here and post this, at my work we have an old suggestion box that no longer has a key, having been watching this channel alot recently i figured i'd try picking it, and obviosly it was a really easy lock, but before today I've never picked anything and I got it open with some binder clips and what I learned from this channel
I have a question for you LockPickingLawyer : Since we are able to 3D print metal now , and 3D printing allow the creation of structures that are impossible to machine otherwise ( like the way the inside of a bone is), do you think there is a way to make a much more pick resistant lock ? EDIT : I've never talked about making a "pick proof" lock , or a commercial lock, or even a durable lock. I'm talking about a theorical lock
Posted 1min ago. Still didn't get here before he opened the lock... Edit: 😳 I think that's the first time I've seen LPL put a correction text in a video!
There's like three videos in total but he has a correction put in somewhere. One of the fingerprint padlock videos he corrects himself and I could have sworn there's one more but I can't remember
@@madtech5153 no he says you need to program the lithium Ion battery any corrects it too charge not program. I believe it was one of their earlier fingerprint lock videos
I just received my Southord beginners pick kit today, needless to say my confidence has been brought back down to Earth, I have a lot of learning to do!
I just bought my first set of picks in a long time because of your videos. They have inspired me to pick back up this hobby. I originally taught myself to pick locks using paperclips bent as a hook and tensioner and I locked myself in the garage until I could get out. I slid the key and my phone under the door back into the house and told myself "alright man, you got 4 days before your parents get home, gotta get out and eat" that was my encouragement to learn quick.
Dr. Frankenstein: [To Igor] Igor, may I speak to you for a moment? Igor: Of course. Dr. Frankenstein: Sit down, won't you? Igor: Thank you. [sits on the floor] Dr. Frankenstein: No no, up here. Igor: Thank you. [sits on a chair] Dr. Frankenstein: Now... that brain that you gave me... was it Hans Delbruck's? Igor: [Crosses arms] No. Dr. Frankenstein: [Holds up hand] Ah. Good. Uh... would you mind telling me... whose brain... I did put in? Igor: And you won't be angry? Dr. Frankenstein: I will not be angry. Igor: [Shrugs] Abby...someone. Dr. Frankenstein: Abby someone? Abby who? Igor: Abby Normal. Dr. Frankenstein: [takes a deep breath] Abby Normal? Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name. [He and Dr. Frankenstein laugh] Dr. Frankenstein: Are you saying... [Stands] that I put an abnormal brain... [Puts hand on Igor's hump] into a 7 and a half foot long... 54- inch wide... [Grabs Igor by throat] GORILLA?!?!?! [Strangling Igor] IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME!?!
It's not like he did anything special - "Nothing on one, nothing on two, click out of three".... Basic LPL fare. Just the proof that the lock ain't unpickable (but then, just a rare few are.... at least with reasonable effort)
From the 20 or so videos I've seen so far, this lock holds better than a fair bit. Did just notice he numbers his videos today. Guess I'll be here for a while
If you don't know how a lock works in general, you should look up that first. The recent videos 1240 and 1244 use use lock decoders, which give you a good visualisation of what to feel for when picking a lock and video 188 is an in-depth look into lock picking tension, which I'd highly recommend. Also there are transparent locks you can buy.
i think he know that there already are great videos in the community. though he might do a playlist with nice introductory videos by other lock pickers
Not LPL, but I collected a series of videos from Bosnian Bill into a playlist if you want to check it out: ru-vid.com/group/PLg0GrPBt1c-ZC3BIi296h_BfLEt0hyv_I
I watched the vid where you picked a trailer puck lock and you mentioned how much harder it would be in a realistic situation; on the ground under a trailer. Got me thinking, a cool series or channel idea would be you actually picking locks in those realistic situations. Now that’d be a treat to see
Really good that you understand and demonstrate the true meaning of the picking path, i.e. the path that the pick is able to travel through and between the wards in the lock. Can you have a go at explaining it to ‘ Serbian Sam ‘ as he seems convinced that it is necessary to have very thin pick that can bend around the wards !!!
Thank you for not wasting my time is what I say to the LPL when he post these short videos. Which is exactly what the LPL says to every lock he picks in seconds - Thanks for not wasting my time.
This guy is bewildering... I wonder how our world can survive to this continued sequence of demonstrations of the weaknesses of our most trusted security devices... ;-)
You are picking it upside down as all euro cylinder looks you picked on the channel, i got to lock picking hoppy by watching your videos which i enjoy very much, but just a note picking euro locks the way they are mounted as intended is much harder than picking them upside down as you show, and thanks as always for your effort and the intertainment and education you provide.
That's the exact lock installed on my door here in Germany. I still wonder how LPL would fare if the cylinder was the correct way up. Just general curiosity if it makes a difference in picking. Because for some reason, this seems like yet another difference between US and Europe with the style of mounting euro profile cylinders.
Question: This cylinders often can't be rotate when keys are inserted from both sites (at the same time). Does that mean, as long as there is a key inserted, they can't be picked from the other site?
If the key is inserted and turned from the inside, yes. Given it's not possible to manually rotate the inside cylinder and the cam through the keyway (which I believe isn't unless tghe lock if flawed).
Depends. Those locks exist in 2 variants, one where one side locks out the other when a key is inserted and one where it doesn't (so called "hotel locks").
Genuine question: Is it easier to pick these locks as standalone units where you can get a good grip of the lock, than for example if the lock was actually in use installed into a door? I would assume that being in a door, it would be easier as you don't have to use a single hand to hold the lock AND tension it? Which way is easiest?
I wonder this all the time, mainly if it would take 2x longer to pick against a door with a frame or in a corner. Like how much advantage is there is being able to position the angle of the lock nicely, as well as the tools. Because, you know, 34sec vs 17sec...oh, nevermind.
When it's in a door, he will have difficulty because to begin with, nobody installs those cores as he picks them. He's holding it upside down, which gives him a clear advantage, so you can expect a drop in speed of a few seconds. But then again, he's not demonstrating technique here, rather "being able to". If you do technique, you don't speak, that's lock picking 101. So don't really take these vids of his as "the way", because they aren't. As for the tensioning bit, that's trivial, it's actually easier to tension an euro lock in its door, rather than in hand, because you rest your hand on the door and everything is stable, where as here, keeping it in the hand ends up giving a few false positives (my term, not the standard term) as the lock moves in the hand.
As a locksmith for 42 years I can tell you that picking a cylinder that is in your hand is usually easier to pick. When you pick a lock on a door your feedback of moving & setting pins is transferred through the pick to your picking hand. When holding a cylinder not mounted in a lock, you also get feedback through your holding hand. Of course, there is also issues of weather conditions, corrosion, frozen hands, bolts that drag on strike plate that make turning difficult, people watching over your shoulder about their brother in law who would have picked that lock in 5 seconds, etc. LPL would have more difficulty in actual lockout situations. With that said, LPL is just as good or better at picking than most locksmiths.
@@mikrobspen and others, thanks for your replies. I by no means want to cast any doubt on LPL's abilities here, I would like to make sure people know this was a genuine question not trying to be negative or anything. I watch LPL's videos as they're just so supremely interesting. 👍👍
@@aserta Here in Sweden I've seen locks being mounted both ways (pins up as well as pins down), so "nobody" is a bit too strong choice of word. Then again, he's holding this lock diagonally... That, I haven't seen yet. :)
The more I watch and follow LPL, the more I felt like I was taking an online asynchronous class with 2.7+ million people to learn about locks. Although there are always those who skipped class (hence the 200-300k views). Luckily there's no exam 😂😂
Me, two weeks ago: oh hey, this video concept is kind of interesting. I may watch more of these. Me, two weeks later, a hundred videos in, with their first lockpicking set and some practice padlocks in the mail: this sort of got out of hand quickly
Remember that guy on PBS with the big hair that painted? LPL voice is very relaxing like that. I have a feeling that if you were on the stand and he was grilling you.....you would be in trouble.
Hey! I've watched a ton of your videos and I love your content. I also watch stuff made here, and was wondering when you were going to pick the "unpickable" lock. The show down of a life time.
Holy shit I've got a lock like this on my door but it's a Yale i wonder it the same scenario in easy picking. Great vids i do enjoy watching these as it's a real eye opener on shity locks.
@@ShadowDragon8685 Some pickers would at first glance consider this tank brigade unpickable, but you can pick them with relative ease using the techniques outlined in video 66.6. A click on tank one, a click on tank 2, a click on tank 1000, and now we only got these little locks, for which I will use this wave rake. And we've got this open. Once more, to show you that it was not fluke, fort closed, the tanks, the lock, fort opened, closed again, tanks, lock, fort open. As you can see, this was not a fluke.
I would love to see you pick the harder locks in the real world, What I mean is a lock actually on a door rather than you gripping the lock in your hand, I also assume it makes it more differcult if its on the door and not in the hand, I do love the videos.
Hi Mr LockPickingLayer , Do you know if it's possible to pick this kind of lock if on the other side of the lock , the key is on and already turned ( i mean not just pushed inside the lock but pushed and turned , not on the "neutral position") ?? Thanks
Lock picking question: One of the doors I go through all the time has a weirdly keyed lock. It is 5 pins but the first 2 and last 2 cuts on the key are flat (high as the pins will go) and the middle cut is a deep valley (as low as the pin will go). Would this be easier or harder to pick than one with a more random distribution of pins?
That sounds more like a key control than bitting. If it is the bitting wouldn't be difficult to pick but likely require a much larger than usual hook to do it
Hello LPL, I have a question regarding this kind of locks. Those locks are common in germany as Appartment Door Locks, House Door Locks etc. and there is kind of a "Myth" going arround, that says if you put the Key on the inside and slightly turn it, you can't open the lock from the other side, even with the right key. (Sorry for my english, its not my native) Can you demonstrate how this works, and if this would mean it is unpickable as long as the key is inserted from the inside? Thanks in Advanced and have a Nice Day
Just playing with one of these locks, I notice 2 things: (1) with a key in one side, you can not insert another KEY on the other side; (2) with a key inserted on one side, the other side appears to be "disengaged" (it has to, to allow the mechanism to actually turn!). The question is whether there is any sort of "bypass" that a picker can use?
I would love to see in depth review and analyze sort of video of a Lock that you cannot pick. ( Not some hobbyist made challenge lock ) But commercial sort of lock that you can buy. Like why that is the case, the good's and the bad's.
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