Lock-Picking Instructions

The Mountain Six Pick (also called Six Mountains) is a classic rake tool. In other words, stroking through the cylinder with this pick means the pins or more or less randomly contacted and more ...

This is probably the coarsest rake pick available in all of lock picking. The even teeth on both sides mean the rake technique can be carried out correctly even by someone with low levels of fine more ...

The snake is a pick tailored exclusively to the lock picking technique of raking. The snake is made up of several semi-circular bends, thereby creating a point of attack for several pins at the more ...

This pick, the snowman, obviously got its name from its appearance: it is made up of two differently-sized circles one on top of the other. This deformation on both sides means locks can be worked more ...

This popular pick form is exclusively used for setting individual pins in the lock. The technique is basically the same as for hook picks. However, due to the triangular form of the pick, the more ...

This tool is the most popular and most common form of lock picking. The bent tool describes a curve between 90 and 180 degrees. These picks are exclusively used for setting cylinder pins. more ...