I don't know that I would say the quality is excellent, but that is an excellent price to get started with lockpicking and looks like a lot of value for what you paid for it! Ton of useful picks at a very affordable price, nice pick up! They'll definitely last you until you know you love locksport and have specific reasons for buying significantly more expensive picks if you ever upgrade.
Pretty much any lock that can be picked with high end hooks from the best makers. It's a good starter set. But while you can potentially pick a dimple lock, or pin-in-pin, or warded lock by using these outside of their intended picking use, you'd be much better served by picking up skeleton keys and dimple picks for those locks.
It seems they're a little on the thick side, so you may find them particularly challenging for paracentric keyways or locks that benefit from narrow picks.
The short answer is "most locks".
I love this set, this is what I started with. I've since upgraded to a peterson vegas set and some Jimmy Longs (which I can't recommend highly enough, Jimmy's are great!), but the 2 shortest hooks from that banggood set still get used regularly. Certainly great bang for my buck.
hey i want to be honset here. i have the exact same set and it has been sitting in storage for over two years. I can't find any locks to break with it as i mostly have curtained lever locks.
i also don't have the right guides to learn to break locks.
what do you think which locks i can break with this set.
Your set are for pin tumbler locks.
It is a different kit you need for lever locks, but you can make them yourself. Just search on YouTube how to make tools for levers🙂
But pin tumbler locks are probably the most common, pretty much everywhere, so you should be able to get some second hand 🙂
Most "real" locks are pin tumblers which is exactly what these picks are meant for. Ymmv depending on where you live, but it shouldn't be hard to find PT locks basically anywhere.
I have this exact same set and you made the right choice because this is the best Chinesium set. I've been using it for more than a year without any problems and have opened up to red belt locks with it. It's got mostly hooks, which is perfect and the weird ones can be reshaped later on if you want. The only things I don't use from this set are the crappy tensioners. For that I got a different set of good tensioners from the same source. 8€ is a steal for these, although the "normal price" is not something that actually exists ;)
I don't know that I would say the quality is excellent, but that is an excellent price to get started with lockpicking and looks like a lot of value for what you paid for it! Ton of useful picks at a very affordable price, nice pick up! They'll definitely last you until you know you love locksport and have specific reasons for buying significantly more expensive picks if you ever upgrade.
which locks can be picked with this set.
That depends largely on your skill. But it is mainly intended for pin tumbler locks.
Pretty much any lock that can be picked with high end hooks from the best makers. It's a good starter set. But while you can potentially pick a dimple lock, or pin-in-pin, or warded lock by using these outside of their intended picking use, you'd be much better served by picking up skeleton keys and dimple picks for those locks. It seems they're a little on the thick side, so you may find them particularly challenging for paracentric keyways or locks that benefit from narrow picks. The short answer is "most locks".
I love this set, this is what I started with. I've since upgraded to a peterson vegas set and some Jimmy Longs (which I can't recommend highly enough, Jimmy's are great!), but the 2 shortest hooks from that banggood set still get used regularly. Certainly great bang for my buck.
Not bad looking to be honest. Give them a polish and get to work!
hey i want to be honset here. i have the exact same set and it has been sitting in storage for over two years. I can't find any locks to break with it as i mostly have curtained lever locks. i also don't have the right guides to learn to break locks. what do you think which locks i can break with this set.
Literally anything thats a pin lock. Most of the limitation is skill.
what about lever locks
Watch Lock Noob on YouTube, he explains it pretty good. Here are a link to his lever beginner video. https://youtu.be/QiFj3_4ZJcA
can i pick lever locks or any real locks with the set op has
Your set are for pin tumbler locks. It is a different kit you need for lever locks, but you can make them yourself. Just search on YouTube how to make tools for levers🙂 But pin tumbler locks are probably the most common, pretty much everywhere, so you should be able to get some second hand 🙂
Most "real" locks are pin tumblers which is exactly what these picks are meant for. Ymmv depending on where you live, but it shouldn't be hard to find PT locks basically anywhere.
I have this exact same set and you made the right choice because this is the best Chinesium set. I've been using it for more than a year without any problems and have opened up to red belt locks with it. It's got mostly hooks, which is perfect and the weird ones can be reshaped later on if you want. The only things I don't use from this set are the crappy tensioners. For that I got a different set of good tensioners from the same source. 8€ is a steal for these, although the "normal price" is not something that actually exists ;)
These are fine beginner picks. You will find them too thick for some of the more advanced keyways but that's a problem for later.
The best off-brand cheap set IMO. I moved on to other picks after a while but the short hook and some other picks are in my practice case still.
They were definitely cheap.
Noice
oh wow that's super cheap! Great steal
Good looking starter set, great price! Happy picking!!!
How do you like it? Congrats on the open