What have you picked today

[HT4]

Excellent ideas! These are the kinds of ideas from bright minds that the New England Patriots need to hire on lol! Go Cardinals!

Lol.

Now, to get this thread back on track:

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[HT4]

Mauer MLS

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[Rockjunkie15]

I'm a newbie picker but I finally lightened up my tension and opened this keyless American 700 I've had laying around.

[Papa Gleb]

RockJunkie congrads. 700 was also my first ever American lock picked.

HT, Mauer, is it a well know good brand company? I seen a few padlocks of their on ebay which looked awesome but I never heard of them.

[DroppedTensionWrench]

I think the Squire SS65CS padlocks have Mauer cores.

[HT4]

RockJunkie congrads. 700 was also my first ever American lock picked.

HT, Mauer, is it a well know good brand company? I seen a few padlocks of their on ebay which looked awesome but I never heard of them.

I have two mauers, and they seem to be well- made. It's a Hungarian company, but it's been owned by Kaba for a while and they seem to have a good reputation.

[Shearlock]

Yes!

While you might laugh at my excitement, I am completely over the moon. This is a ABUS Titalium 80TI/50 and as well, my first Abus ever.

I got this off eBay and received it last night, moments ago on my third attempt I finally cracked it. Absolutely love this lock. Machining is excellent and a wild key bitting. When the shackle popped I all but high fived myself.

Used Sparrows worm for the false set and a Peterson gem for the win. I have a stack of challenging locks sent from the kindness of BosnianBill and Jeff Moss so more coming soon and YouTube videos starting soon.

[aeporia]

Yes!

While you might laugh at my excitement, I am completely over the moon. This is a ABUS Titalium 80TI/50 and as well, my first Abus ever.

I got this off eBay and received it last night, moments ago on my third attempt I finally cracked it. Absolutely love this lock. Machining is excellent and a wild key bitting. When the shackle popped I all but high fived myself.

*internet high five* :3

Nice picking.

Something I found after finding success in raking to a false set: (depending on the pinning, security pins, and I find the spring strength) you can rake some of these medium-range ABUSs completely. With slight flicking, some extra force, and some lateral motion + see-sawing with a bogota I’ve gotten past the spools in some of these buggers directly to an open. Works regularly on my standard 83/50 and a 83/45 Mariner.

On similar ABUSs that this didn’t work on I found it was — I think — generally the pinning that made getting it in one go difficult. Where it didn’t fully work I generally still had a very nice false set to just finish off with a hook.

Again, nice work. (:

[Shearlock]

I actually want to focus and improve my SPP skills, so I have no desire to complete rake it.

I only rake to completion if I'm going for speed and only speed. Otherwise I prefer to restrict myself to SPP to push myself and advance my skills. After I master a lock via SPP I'll go back and try raking techniques, just so I know if I can if ever the need for speed arises.

I always say "It's better to SPP and not need to, than to need to SPP and not be able to."

I need to put that on a shirt.

[HT4]

Papa Gleb is introducing me to nasty MTL drivers. Those spooled inner drivers on 3&5 slot into counter milling in the key pins... A challenging combination.

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[Anarchy_won]

1 of 3 I opened today

[Neilau]

I know, I know….a crappy old Master combo. Picture proves nothing.

I’m posting it as it is the first one that I decoded using Oldfast’s method (or any method).

OF kindly sent me this lock along with a couple of others – no combination. I usually just shim them but I watched his video on YouTube a couple of times and decided to give it a go.

10 - 15 minutes later I got it.

Posting it, not because it’s a big deal but I am quite chuffed to have actually decoded one and not shimmed it.

PS. sorry if I've lowered the tone of this thread.

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[aeporia]

Got it, Neilau, finally.

[DroppedTensionWrench]

Got my first ASSA. 6 pin 600.

[Rockjunkie15]

Started off the day by picking this little challenge lock my wife put together for me.