Advanced Lockpicking Secrets by Steven M Hampton.pdf

Contents

Introduction................................... 1

Making the Tools............................... 5

Magnetic Locks ............................... 25

Disc Tumbler and Puzzle Locks .................. 33

Energizing Your Hands......................... 37

Tips for Success............................... 41

Acknowledgments

I would like to give special thanks to several people

for their assistance with the research and development

of this book. Mr. Steven Hillius, EE, provided the

portable magnetic lock pick circuit design. I would like

to thank Mr. Craig Herrington and Mr. Jack Folkerth

for their help in creating and testing the new lock pick

designs. Finally, I would like to thank a very good

friend and kung-fu Master, Mr. Lucjan Shila, and

Sensei John Angelos, for their contribution of the

"Energizing Hands" exercise.

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you must now have or you wouldn't be reading this

book. There should be no doubt in your mind that you

have the right stuff. And you do.

The second quality of a master lock picker is the

ability to improvise when you are without lock picks—to

be able to use such things as paper clips, small screw-

drivers, pieces of wire, and hacksaw blades as tools. In

other words, tools are always available to the master

lock picker. And after finishing this book, you'll know, in

greater detail, how to make your own professional tools.

Third, you have the understanding that if you break

into a locked premise illegally, you could go to jail and

not collect $200. I really did not want to write about

such a negative subject, but it is important that we, as

master lock pickers, have some integrity. With our

knowledge and skills, we need to maintain some kind of

code. For instance, I only pick locks for fun and emer-

gencies. Being broke is not an emergency. If it comes

down to it, you can probably get a job as a locksmith

apprentice. If you encounter someone locked out of his

house or car, and you are going to help him get in, be

sure he can prove the property belongs to him. At least,

ask to see his driver's license, just in case the police get

involved.

So, those three qualities—confidence, skillful means

of applying tools for the purpose, and caution when it

comes to breaching the security of unknown situations —

will keep you out of trouble and let you enjoy your skills

as a master lock picker.

Another important factor to realize is that practice

does make perfect. You not only project yourself into the

lock you are picking, but the process of mere repetition

will accumulate to make your fingers very skillful. By

projection, I am referring to the intense concentration

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that leads to visualization of all the inner workings *of

the lock you are picking.

As I also mentioned in my previous book, a firm yet

gentle touch on the tension wrench is needed along with

a sense of heightened sensitivity, which is basically

developed through practice and mind full ness—being

fully aware of what one is experiencing while picking a

lock. One of my favorite scenes from a popular private

investigator show on television is where the star is

trying to break into his house while the "lads" (two

Doberman pinscher dogs) are madly racing toward him.

He repeats over and over to himself, "Concentrate on

the lock, don't look at the dogs, concentrate on the lock."

Of course, he gets in, just in the nick of time. So, success

is simply based on concentration, which develops into

heightened sensitivity through practice and remember-

ing to focus: concentration is the key.

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