Lock Picking and Lock Bumping News — lock picking

Hello Lock Pickers

One of the most common emails I receive (apart from the endless 'Thank you for a great service and super-dooper, ultra-discount lock pick' ones, of course) is one of the many variations on the 'Will these picks open this lock?', accompanied by a blurry picture of an old rim-cylinder, padlock, bike lock, or tubular lock on an old safe. This email - if you know anything about lock picking is as simple as it is complicated to answer. For instance, were it a 6 pin cylinder, generic keyway, then yes, sure, a set of rakes, a pick gun, a pick set - even Mica - can open that lock. But it depends on a lot of things out of my control. What condition is the lock? Is it full of sand (locksmiths who live in hot countries by the beach - even cold countries near the beach - will know the amount of trouble sand can cause locks), is it full of bent and/or damaged pins where you (or someone) has tried to force it, snap it, drill it, etc. Without knowing the state of the lock I don't really know what will certainly work on it, and I never could. Assuming the lock is in perfect working order, what are your abilities as a lock picker? You may have bumped a couple of locks, you may have had a few lucky rakes (and as much as I love raking, isn't all raking a little bit lucky? That's the beauty of it, surely?). In many walks of life a small amount of success can give us a false sense of our own abilities, and then, faced with a new lock, you think 'I can do that!', I'll just send a photo to the nice people at UK Bump Keys and they'll send me the CORRECT lock smith tools.

Hello Lock Pickers - what a week it's been Here at Bump Towers! With the FREE Wave Rake XS promotion, Which, if you didn't see it said spend over £30 and you got a FREE set of our new 20pc one ended Wave Rakes? Pretty cool. Now of course they've got two ends but that's lock picking for 'having a pick at one end only'. Same patterns as the 10 piece double-ended versions, but a great alternative if you fancy it. The Wave Rakes XS are £19 after VAT so the give-away was mad busy and we woke up to...

Hello all Another amazing week in UK Bump Keys history with more orders processed in one week than ever before. It's a great sign that we're still doing what we've been doing with lock pick sales for 10 years - listening to customers and giving them what they want. We started selling lock picks 10 years ago and have maintained the same business model we had then: Best Possible Price. (BPP). My staff are sick of me signing every email with the letters BPP - instilling this in the minds of all of us here saves a lot of questions....