Advantages of Homemade Lockpicks.

[Valdravulfr]

To start off it is near impossible to trace them to you. This is the most important advantage unless you use the "wrong adress" trick. I personally use hacksaw blade picks, they are made from ideal metal, are cheap and unsuspicious to buy. Another advantage of using hacksaw picks is that if you have one ended picks you can leave the ends of the hacksaw on, having a hole in the metal to attach to the inside lapels of a jacket and theres a ready made saw edge. This way is also a lot quicker and easier to do than ordering online as I made my pick in 5 minutes. You can get about a dozen hacksaw blades for less than a dollar and get at least two out of every one. A Tension wrench is easily made or substituted for a ground down allen key or a small screwdriver, again untracable. Especially for "minors" it could be difficult or impossible to order the pick sets without suspicion. I find that homemade picks are generally of equal quality and with say the hacksaw blade edge, can be multi-purpose. Adding another pick on the handle end can reduce the number of picks needed greatly.

[Dethkreep]

I'm not too into the lockpicking thing yet. But I'll reccomend the hacksaw method to a few friends who want lock picks. Ill also keep this referenced.

[killdozer]

I've never used hacksaw blades. Personally I use street sweeper blades but they tend to break easily if they are old and rusty when you find them.

[GothicNiNjA]

thats the first thing ive made decent quality picks out of is street sweeper bristles, i find them all over my city everywhere, the street sweeper comes probably once a week and i can usually find about thirty walking to the store and back, been randomly picking them up for about 7 years, now i have about 1000 blanks i havent really touched yet, not to mention the hundred or so ive made and used to practice until they broke, the wrenches almost always go first but they are the easiest to make, i prefer to use a dremel tool, its quick and you can get very detailed smooth edged picks in minutes back im going to make something where i can make ten picks of the same shape at once to increase my production rate sometime

[Saaber]

sorry to bump an old thread but, does anyone have a tutorial or pictures of the hacksaw lockpick?
Thanks.