he knew he wasnt really going to be able to do any lock picking with his knife so he needed something to stretch the video out to try to convince the algorithm to show his videos to more people. thats dedication to the algorithm
Despite having watched many lockpicking videos, yours was the first that actually explained why the pins bind as they do. I also really liked your wooden demonstration version, and how you were able to visually demonstrate it without having to look through a tiny camera or lots of clear plastic.
Everyone should check out the “Lock Picking Lawyer”, he is the master. he can typically pick any lock and I really mean any lock under 2 minute and then take out all the pins and springs, to show the audience. His videos rarely takes more than 5 minutes. He also never shows his face , only his hands.
Despite having tried to understand lock picking from dedicated lock picking channels like LPL, I couldn't understand why it worked. With your beautiful model lock, I was finally able to understand how it works. Great video and explanation, thank you!
I truly enjoy how much effort you put into your videos I definitely always walk away from them learning something new to add to the toolbox of knowledge
Awesome video Felix.If an SAK user never uses the toothpick, replace it with modified tweezers which can pick a lock and open handcuffs. Thanks again Mr. Immler.
Hey Felix..It was also the name of horse of Alexander the Great.. But you seem to be a good Thief.. The way you opened the locks and after you smile that gave me goose bumps.. 😂😂😂
I love itI love it. You’re not afraid to admit when something doesn’t work, but you go right back in there and do whatever it takes to make it work. You‘be shown usAll it takes is patience and time thanks Felix I love your show!
Hello from Wellington, New Zealand. Thank you Herr Immler for yet another excellent video. The more I learn how to use my Swiss Army Knife the happier I am that it is always in my pocket in case of emergency. Please keep up the great work.
Hey Felix! For a long time I dreamed of learning how to do this, but there was no reason. And now you've intrigued me. I will definitely try. I suspected that SAK was capable of this. I give a like.
Great video by the way I was thinking instead of having a toothpick you could have two sets of tweezers one regular and one pointed. The pointed tweezers could also act as a toothpick.
Once i had bend the tweezers using it as a tension tool and i had used the stainless pin as raking tool,the toothpick was too big,but the pin was too short,so i holded it with the pliers of my SAK,finaly it works with a little bit of luck.Now in an emergency situation I could separate the tweezers in to two part,to use one as tension tool and to file the second part with the metal file from my SAK to use it as a raking tool(i carry two tweezers,one my pocket,one in my key chain,Lol).The paper clips are great locking picking tools,MacGyver's style...anyway,nice video as always,Greetings from Greece my friend.
Now that I have retired from my career as a dentist, I am looking for a new career. Burglary sounds good. I own several unused SAK given to me over the years from dental suppliers. Thanks for this instructional video to help me launch my new career, Felix!!!
I wonder if Victorinox thought of this as another function? Good Friday to you Felix. Excellent video as always. Love the effort you put into your projects. Thank you for going the extra mile. Bravo.
Hi Felix! Fun and useful demonstration. As I am sure you know, one can find lock picking demonstrations all over the Internet. One of the consequences of these tutorials has been to show the shocking weakness of commerically available locks. As a consumer, I hope this exposure will force manufacturers to get serious about the security of their products. Danke!
Thanks Felix, I spend a lot of time and energy trying to avoid needing this skill. Might be better just to accept that I probably will need it someday.
This is what I have been waiting for 😀 As a beginner at lock picking, I would say your last solution is the best, but quite limited to certain locks. I think a good, basic, easy test lock would be a Master lock N°3. A very interesting project and very well demonstrated. I will be mentioning it on my channel (where I do a bit of lock picking) 👍👍👍🍻
@@mollylemonk I made a video ages ago, #010 Bushcrafting a Key From a Beer Can :-) Just a bit of fun really. One of the most common lockpicking tools that are made from beer cans are shims. Cheers Molly 🥂
ein wahrer Meister seines Fachs, ich habe mindestens 50 Swiss Army Messer Tendenz steigend, aber diese Fähigkeiten werd ich wohl nie erreichen, meine tiefste Bewunderung
Very interesting! Always fun to learn more about our Swiss Army knives and especially what we can do with it! I personally Ifind the toothpick to soft in general so I will modify another set of tweezers and figure out a way to add it to my SAK. My actual toothpick has already been replaced by a firefly ferrorod. Thanks again! Great video! Cheers!👍
An interesting use and more realistic than the McGuyver version! It would be interesting to see picks designed to replace the toothpick, like that firesteel. You could certainly have a hook or city rake etc.
The only McGuyver lockopening with the Swiss army knife i remember, was one of these old locks where the key is a round rod with the keybit attacked. He pushed the key out the other side while he had slid a map under the door to catch it and pulled tha map back. Conveniently thegap between the floor and the door was big enough that the key would fit.
@@nirfz That's one of the more realistic examples, but they've also just had him straight up defeat locks (I believe in-door knob) bu inserting a tool and fiddling, memory says the awl. Some googling says that probably happened in Season 1 Episode 10 'Target Macgyver' and it was in fact the awl on the back. He has however, also picked a lock with tweezers, but in true show style he just slid them in a waggled them until it opened, no two tool approach.
@@DorkForge ok i didn't remember those😁. (found someone who did a little mod and used a tensioner: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uN9huKFCw3I.html) One thing i really have to give to McGuyver is that he had 2 of the most realistic bomb "defusals" i have seen on screen: At one instance he put his carboard icehockey ticket between the contacts of a relay as an isolation (so when the button was pushed no current was flowing and the detonator was not ignited), and on another occasion he pulled the detonators out of the c4 and removed the explosives far enough that the detonator couldn't detonate them. Everytime i see someone trying to figure out which colour wires to cut on screen i remember these two instances.
I always have two SAKs with me - a Classic SD in the watch pocket of my jeans and a Spartan. I will grind one of the tweezers to a point and leave the other as is.
Hallo Felix, an dir ist ja ein Einbrecher verloren gegangen! 😄👍😄 Man glaubt gar nicht, wofür das Victorinox alles zu gebrauchen ist. Einfach ein super Messer und ein echtes Multitool!👍👍👍 Liebe Grüße aus Wels und ein schönes Wochenende!
In my youth I used to pick locks just for fun to understand how they worked. NEVER to enter into a place or access something I had no right to enter or access something that wasn't mine. Back then I used to use flat hair pins with two legs, one flat and one wavy (bobby pins?) as tensioning and raking tools. Given how clever you are I'm guessing you could easily turn a pair of those hairpins into a pick set that you could stow somewhere in your SAK. ;-) That would save wear and tear on your toothpick and your tweezers and keep them in good working order for their intended purposes? It is a good skill to know and could come in handy in an emergency. I did put those skills to good use a few months back when entry needed to be made into a home in an emergency, but we did not want to damage the homeowners property. I was able to pick a door lock and make entry to take care of what needed attention as the homeowner was thousands of miles away in hospital. It was the first and probably the last time that skill came in handy for a legitimate purpose in my case, but there you have it.
Hi Felix I bought my first Swiss army knife in Lucerne. I still have it today with a pouch and small torch. The other multi pocket knives have little deffects, a broken corkscrew, another a broken can opener. But that is wear and tear.. 7Swiss army knives. All still great tools.
@@FelixImmler Unfortunately, I don't know how. You already have other subtitles there. Just add Czech. Czech viewers will be happy for that. Sorry for my English, I'm using a translator.
Omg if only I've known this before! Some time ago my neighbor locked his bike to the rail and the code didnt work the lock jammed. Asked me for help but I didn't have bolt cutters. So with the Swiss champ steel saw I sawed through the very thick bike lock ( took me about 15 minutes). Great video, uncle Felix.
Hi Felix 😊 this was a differant video, looks like you might have found a new pastime, Lock sport, lol. Whith top quality locks it's harder than you think, which is a good thing for our security,ha, ha. Thanks for another interesting video my friend, stay safe, best wishe's to you and your's, Stuart UK.
the tweezers toothpick combo is exactly what I went for when my friend just gave me a lock and a swiss army knife, took me a solid 5 minutes, then he just used the awl, shoved it straight into the lock and opened it on the first try, doesn't work with all locks but works with enough locks for me to think they designed it like a skeleton key on purpose
