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The Jos Weyers Interview - World Champion Lock Impressioner! Open The Lock - And Get  Working Key! Impressioning is a lock picking technique where a blank key is wiggled around in the lock to produce tiny marks on the key. After filing down these marks and repeating the wiggle, you end up with a working key. Sound good? I saw Jos open a lock like this in under a minute, lock open, working key in hand. Quite amazing. Recently I caught up with Jos again, and asked im some questions about lock impressioning, being a celebrity, and well, being Jos...

I hope this finds you well. The new year is well and truly into gear now and all the great ideas you had over the holiday period have retreated back to where they belong and you're back in your reassuringly familiar groove. We make changes when we have to, not when we want to - it makes more sense that way anyway. I'm obviously back to work. Not that I ever stopped. I went on holiday, but with modern communications it would have almost been rude not to work. There I was on a beach in Thailand, my lady friend...

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 When I meet someone new invariably the conversation moves onto what I do for a living. The answer "I'm in Lock Picks" never fails to pique interest. However, after a brief explanation of what 'in lock picks' actually means (ie manufacture, import, export and retail) the question is asked: 'Who buys lock picks?' It's an odd question since it assumes a certain cynicism, as people tend to already have an idea, they already assume it's something dodgy. In short, the assumption is that thieves buy lock picks, people who wish to steal things OBVIOUSLY buy lock picks and...