Wear Your Lockpicks!

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By John Baichtal
Posted 2011/02/25 @ 5:00 pm
Category Tools

One of our new members at the Hack Factory is Ray Connors, a locksport aficionado. He makes his own lockpicks, which are sold in pairs, double-sided rake/tensors. Also, I really liked his method for storing them, in a safety pin laced through a pen spring. Wearable lockpicks!

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4 Responses to Wear Your Lockpicks!

Anonymous on February 26th, 2011 at 3:03 am said:

Someone would know what that is. So why? Just asking, since I have no knowledge of picking locks. What is the advantage of doing it this way? Can you hide it better? How does it fit in the pen? W/ the safety pin? Please understand, I know NOTHING of this sort of thing. So could you explain why this is so wonderful?

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- Tyler Werenskjold on February 26th, 2011 at 3:28 pm said:
  
  I’m no locksmith, but basically, it’s a neat way to store small tools that are easily lost by using commonly available materials.
  
  So instead of tossing it in a pocket or on a desk, you could pin it to a board, or your shirt for easy access.
  
  Just because you have a lock pick doesn’t mean you’re up to no good, haha.
  
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- john gomm on February 26th, 2011 at 6:49 pm said:
  
  I carry a homemade lock pick to get into my house and mailbox if I lose/break my keys. I have found them to be very useful for opening 2 doors, my mailbox and 2 padlocks when I misplaced the keys, due to tidying up. However, if you don’t have your pick when locked outside your house, they do no good whatsoever, which is why I carry them around in my everyday backpack. These picks are quite handsome and wearing them as pins on e.g. a hat or jacket would not look out of place in many contexts. You could put them on the inside if you don’t like the looks. Never forgotten at home when you need them most.
  
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Anonymous on February 27th, 2011 at 7:45 pm said:

correction: Ray is a member of Twin Cities Maker. The Hack Factory is just the space, the community is http://www.tcmaker.org.

locksport is not about illegal entry, it’s solving little mechanical puzzles. ray makes some of the most amazing picks i’ve ever worked with, and finding ways to keep the bitty bits of metal from getting lost is quite a trick. i use a little mint package or a cigar tube to store mine.

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