Lock Picking - The Beginners Visual Guide
Actually Learn How To Pick Locks With This Book
If you want to learn lock picking properly, a photo and diagram-driven manual will beat long, wordy tutorials every time. The Beginners Visual Guide gives step-by-step visuals for beginners, showing what happens inside the lock as you work, so you can learn faster and make fewer mistakes. It’s built for hands-on practice and for people who want usable skills, not just vague theory and scant ideas.
Most beginner material is either too short or too vague - or both! A few out of context tips and low-quality photos that leave you guessing. This visual guide shows the pin stacks, the shearline, tool angles, and much, much more. The techniques are broken down for you to follow with your picks and lock in your hand. This matters because lock picking is a tactile skill. When you can picture the mechanism as you work, your muscle memory learns exactly what to feel. You can see it on the page, and you can feel it in your picks.
This particular guide is heavy on diagrams and practical instruction, making it ideal to read while you have your practice locks on the bench. It covers pin cylinders, single pin picking, tensioning, the many types of raking, lock bumping and an introduction to other common lock types such as tubular locks, disc detainers, lever locks, and more, giving you a broad, practical foundation - necessary to build a solid lock picking practice.
If you want to pick locks like the masters on YouTube, this is the perfect place to start. You won't be left hanging looking for missing details typical of most lock picking books, with nearly 180 pages and nearly 200 illustrations, all the information you need is literally in the palm of your hands.
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- 190+ full-colour detailed illustrations that explain what is happening inside the lock as you work.
- 176 Pages of progressive instruction that takes the guesswork out of lock picking and explains what's happening in the lock as you learn.
- Practical chapters on tensioning, single pin picking, bumping, wafer locks, dimple locks, padlock shimming, bypass techniques + more.
WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR:
- Absolute beginners who want a visually heavy, no nonsense lock picking learning route.
- Lock Sporters who already have a basic set and want to improve technique and knowledge base.
- Trainers and workshop leaders looking for clear visual references for teaching use.
- Anyone with an interest in how we open locks without keys.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
- Tools and set-up - picks, rakes, tensioners locks, and practice locks.
- How to read a lock - The binding pin principle and how to make use of it.
- Single pin picking - It's about feel, not force.
- Raking - Where most people start and many locks end.
- Tension control - How much, when, and why.
- Lock Bumping - The mechanics of bumping and how to correctly use Dampeners
- Other Locks - wafer, dimple, lever, disc-detainer, padlocks + more
Having read most of the lock picking books available over the decades we've been picking locks, some of which are more like pamphlets, others with faded black and white diagrams, and not many of them, we decided it was time to make a lock picking book that does what the reader wants - teaches them how locks work, and how we can exploit vulnerabilities in them to open them without the key - AKA: Lock Picking.
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