#Lockpicking Tools

[locksmithautomotiveservices]

Essential Lockpicking Tools and Techniques for Temporary Fixes and Professional Solutions

Locksmithing can often be complicated, requiring a lot of equipment and expertise to handle any problem a customer may have. However, if you need a temporary fix for being locked out or losing your key, there are a few simple tools you can keep on hand.

Before using a lockpick, it’s essential to have a tension wrench. This tool is used alongside any pick you choose, holding the pins in place as you work through them.

The Triangle Pick

The triangle pick is the most versatile kind of pick and can be used in a variety of ways. It’s also one of the best choices if you’re only going to pick one kind of lockpick.

Rake Pick

The other essential lockpick that can be used to tackle a variety of jobs is the rake pick. This pick works by raking all the pins at once to push them above the the sheer line. At the same time, the tension rod turns the plug, and some or all of the pins fall into the correct position after removing the pick.

Hook Pick

The hook pick is what people usually think of when they think of a lockpick. It’s the most basic kind of pick, and works by lifting individual pins into the correct position one at a time.

Wafer Pick

A wafer pick, as the name suggests, is designed to open wafer locks. Although you don’t necessarily need a pick specifically designed for this type of a lock, it will make your life a little easier.

Round Pick

This pick looks how you would expect it to look- round at the end, in either the shape of a full or half circle. It is another pick that can be used to open wafer locks, and is handy to have in your arsenal.

The Skeleton Key

The skeleton key is also known as the warded picks, as these picks are designed to tackle warded locks. Warded locks have simpler design than pin locks, and employ wards to allow or deny access based on the shape of the key. The skeleton key is stripped down to the essential part of a warded key, the very end, allowing for easier manipulation and less chance of the key being denied.

Hopefully this short list will help you out of a tight spot sometime in the future. If you do end up needing to call in a professional, make sure you hire someone who is trustworthy and reliable, and who has all the necessary tools to tackle any job. 24 hour locksmiths like locksmith Temecula are on call and ready to come to your aid night or day.

[saturnniidae]

Hiccup keeps a very small emergency blade in his prosthetic leg. It's not far-fetched considering he canonically made Gobber one for his birthday

[szonikuscsavarhuzo]

@muszeresz

[tenebrius-excellium]

This is murder baby he is VERY PISSED

aka Eugenides Attolis in 'The King of Attolia'

[blujayonthewing]

idri's thieves' tools were inherited from her mentor; they're big and clunky in her hands and she'd maybe be better served with finer, lighter tools, but these are the ones she learned with, and she wouldn't give them up for anything

elyss's are a bespoke matched steel toolset made for her by her blacksmith friend and the party's former fighter; she asked him to make them, but she treasures them like a gift nonetheless

melliwyk's are personally handcrafted and bundled together into one fold-out multitool doohickey, stylized as an insect with various tools for its antennae and legs

felix's are a hodgepodge, obviously accumulated and/or replaced one piece at a time across a wide timespan and from completely different sources, bundled together with his other hand tools in a worn but well-tended leather case embossed with a raccoon motif

[roseverdict]

bad bike lockup: looping your lock through the bike frame and nothing else

okay bike lockup: looping your lock through the bike frame and an immobile pole like a street sign

good bike lockup: looping your lock through the bike frame, the back wheel, the front wheel if you can manage it, and an actual bike rack

????? bike lockup: looping your lock through the bike frame, the back wheel, and the grated door of the propane tank storage unit at a gas station

[aria0fgold]

House problems a-happening which is entertaining by itself so I've been distracted the whole day to actually draw. Basically, the doorknob to my parents' room is being fecky, and it also just so happens that the key to it is missing and there's no spare. It accidentally got locked, so I've spent most of my afternoon picking it (which was unsuccessful, my hands hurt...) And now that my stepdad is home, they're experimenting on it now (the base had to be forced open and turns out, the small piece of it was what locks it in place and just closing the door immediately locks it as if it's an auto-lock).

[dndtreasury]

Locklinks

[invinciblerodent]

oh god Astarion really is literally the lockpicking lawyer in the most authentic way

[vvelegrin]

augh i need to get a new phone, and i need to give my doctor a form so i can get accommodations for the GRE, and i need to contact people for letters of recommendation, and i need to get my car smogged, and i need to make an appointment for a sleep study, and i need to get a livescan done like three months ago, and i need to fill out a thing for my master gardener project, and i need to scout out areas that are safe and legal to shoot some arrows and also maybe make a lesson with the local range to clean up my form, and i need to reach out to some local falconers so i can flush game for them and whatever and be best friends forever, and also get ear drops again for my recurring double ear infections lmao, and probably about 400 other things.

sigh. what if i... didn't.

[greaserink]

YOU CAN PICK LOCKS????? THATS COOL AS SHIT!

Basic kit but if it ain't broke-

fskgshshdkalsj thank you, I didn't think I'd ever learn it, but it's fun. I have the learning lock and this chateau disc lock I practice on. I highly recommend people learn how to pick locks.

[godzexperiment]

For a while all she could to was stare, wondering if she saw what she’d just witnessed. “That is…one heck of a party trick. How can you—I need to learn that.”

If that was one thing on the complete list, now she had to know. “I’m sure the list might keep us here for hours, so how about the cliff notes version?”

"That was keeping it simple, can also thread small beads and charms. Plus weave things together- just about considering the movement of muscles and force required." Nix grinned before humming for an few seconds thoughtfully to condense the list down. "Fully mix an drink, obviously divine bedroom activities, clean up knocked over drinks within seconds, Sewing but also embroidery. As some of the highlights. Oh and lock picking!"

[pagesofkenna]

also rich of me to call it my knives!Hanahaki fic when he doesn't cough up a single knife until halfway through, at which point he immediately resigns himself to death

[jinxed-ninjago]

im gonna have to go through the upply's episodes because sometimes they interact in the background in some of the funniest ways, for example:

then you also have the glances they shoot each other when someone else is being weird. usually the glances are between fungus and plundar when korgran is being his usual himbo self.

like i literally just wanna make a compilation of goofy upply background interactions lmao

[icthyarch]

supremely justified in having lockpicks by having to use them to break into a shed that I Locked and a lock that I Lost the key for

[trevisos]

i think i’m gonna give xar a couple levels in rogue next time i play him bc in my heart he is a terrific pickpocket and i want the rogue dialogue options bc some are sooo good for him