Grim Workshop Lock Pick Credit Card Sets 

Oh dear, some things even I can’t see the positive side of….😬

On a positive note, those items do live up to the manufacturer's name: They really are grim. Thanks for the cautionary review, Ash. 🙂👍

They look like cartoon versions of lockpicks.

You know its bad when it doesnt even open a Master lock

I bought some of these off of a buddy early in my picking-I thought for sure the problems I had using them were due to being a new picker. You make me feel better about not getting them working-though a little worse for spending my money on them!!

Obviously they paid you for that glowing review, 😆

A year later and they seem to have improved their products a little. On their product page the shaft for the pick seems a lot sturdier, but hard to tell without it in my hands... and I'm too cheap to buy one to find out.

Remember your 1st buddy to get a 3d printer when they were new? Yeaaaah....that TOOTALLY looks like a lock pick....🤦‍♀🤣🤣🤣

Honestly, for the level of quality there I think you wasted your time looking at them so long 😅 As for tension tools, myself, it's too easy to not just make my own. I learned how to make one fit a lock just right for me.

Grim have just done new sets through Kickstarter which look a little better but I suspect will suffer from the same issues around being too thin

kind of curious now, if that first set would even open those clear plastic practice locks

That last pick that's too thin would have been better to have been made into a key extractor or something.

Good to know what to avoid! Thanks for the heads up.

Thanks

Looking at the pictures on their website, I do think the one set had an issue with how the hook got cut out. Either way I wouldn’t trust these 2 sets in any situation.

Tool looks to be etched. Water jets normaly aren't able to cut half way. They can mark but the marking depths varies a lot.

These didn't look good but I checked the picks from sparrow you mentioned. Much better

I have to commend your honesty. This really looks low end indeed.

First set of picks I got was in a credit card. Used them once forgot they are in my wallet. 🤔🗝️🔐

Thanks for sharing 🙂👍 now i know for sure that I do not want to spend money on buying them. thanks for an honest review 🙂🙏🙂

Wow looks like a honest review to me ..😎

Honestly i dont think people realy care about these pick sets anymore. It is just so much easier to make a pick on the fly

Brutal...they must never have tried to use them???

As for the first card pick, just because you can, doesn't mean you should...

Love your honest and detailed review, just what we've come to expect from your reviews : ) I think I would rather use the Chinese credit card set that's much cheaper. maybe even just buy a cheap H&H jacknife.

Lock noob, can you review the updated model please. I think it looks promising

I saw these online before discovering this video. First thing I thought was "Lockpicks made by somebody who's never seen a lockpick". Glad I didn't buy them, bought your chaos card from sparrows actually.

Don't they test it out before selling it

I wonder why they didn't just copy a working profile such as a Peterson hook #1 and some wave rake. Pickers don't need much more than 1-2 good hooks and a wave rake. For a tension tool, just give us a 3mm flat strip of metal that we can bend ourselves the way we need it...

Does anyone have a recommendation for a first set of picking tools? (Trying not to get ripped off or buy wrong) 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Fun items, thanks for sharing

Those look pretty cool. Thanks for sharing

You can tell just by looking at them that the dimensions are WAY off. It's like someone who has never picked locks saw a picture once and drew them from memory to make these.

Should've plugged LPL's covert companion 😄

Supposedly for first set you have to sand em smooth.

For US knob locks the card might be OK but if you already know how it's done, you already have a better tool in your wallet for in-swing doors and a pocket knife for out-swing doors. Something like this could be done well, but you'll always have too short of a handle to work with which makes it hard for those with experience and near-impossible for those without experience. Fill that wallet space with a real credit card and you'll go a lot further!

Guarantee you could use that 1st hook on some locks. If you shortened it up it would work on the master. You could probably modify a couple others to work too...about the second hook I make alot of my picks very small because I like bottom keyway. I use wiper inserts and I barely bend them, they must be close to the size of that 2nd hook. But they must have used shit steel

its a credit card lock picking set, I always saw all of their cards as gimmicks, and to be used in true true emergencies. all their survival ones look cool but they have 9 different signature ones and they all are pretty much the same thing. I cant see how all the people in the comments were legitimately looking at these as to perform as fixed sets.

Sorry, but that all looks pretty grim to me - bearing in mind that they were in the hands of an expert. $20 is not cheap. The 'no touch' card is a con and in my eyes anti-science! I could go on a rant, but I won't bother. Fabulous picking as per usual. All the very best to you and yours 👍 👍 👍 🍻

thanks mate, saved me from testing it myself, i was hoping it would work, keep up the good work.

Thanks for the review, i still think all of these credit card things are a bit weird 🤷

Got suckered into other grim products.... results were....grim

Yikes! About all I can say! I know its tough for you to not be able to find some bright spots in products.. grim indeed!

The first set looks like something they made up for lock picking in a Hollywood movie. Maybe made for some funky Chinese made lock? It’s not really that difficult to find actual lock pickers and get their input into designing some usable tools. I’m sure they would do well by using some quality 301 stainless steel first. Then get some basic pick designs that can work. The way those things are, they aren’t really usable. It seems like they are just scamming people who don’t know any better out of their money.

I thought that the plastic card was a elastic band gun at first Nice review - pity that the tools didn't work that well

It's got the right name...Grim Pure rubbish and waste of money in my humble opinion! 😉

Fantastic 👍🏻

Thank you for the review. Definitely know what not to buy now.

You are too nice reviewing an item that is clearly sub par

Great video ash my friend and a good honest review👍🇬🇧😎👊😊

do they ship them to india

Do you have a link to the ones you help create which I would assume you recommend over both of these?

too much tension

thanks for this one ! cheers

thank you for... the cool content... would you mabe think of to do one on one you would actually use or spend your money on to buy .. because of A... B... C.. ext again greeting from South Africa

Better off with hair pins 😬

Sorry you paid for these, would have been better off using the money to take the wife out 🍻

Cool

After seeing this, I won't buy anything from grim workshop now. Why are you demonstrating junk? NOT ONE of those picks was a normal profile, they were all useless things they invented that look like they were made by someone that never picked a lock before and was guessing what a lockpick should look like. The one good thing was the sticky backing so you can replace the picks into the card again. I wish my lock master card had that feature. I knew what that button push was at first glance, but was amazed that you could use it as a door latch bypass. Now I know in a pinch I could make one out of a used gift card.

Don't complain about your nails. Im sure your nail scrappings would make a better pick

Sir I want this kit Am working in bank locker making technician in india

Looks like a cheap copy to me! Counterfeit...

Sup

bad ^^

Did you not already review this piece of junk?

One off the worst products I’ve see seen you review hahaha

A great and honest review as always. Thanks for sharing Ash and have a great week mate.