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RAKING Rapid Lock Picking for Beginners A UPVC Eurocylinder opened with a Wriggler Rakes. (customer Photo)   Hello all Man I'm tired. Is that how life works? You have more of a laugh than you deserve for the first thirty years and then you're exhausted until you meet your maker? Maybe it's just me. Perhaps I'll stop eating cake for lunch and join a gym. Perhaps. There's other ways to get through in life when you're permanently exhausted. Save time. Do things that are efficient. If you can hang a picture quickly, you're standing for half the time. Solving problems...

Hello all. It's been a while since I wrote a blog, but there's a lot going on behind the scenes here - new tools in development, a new website on the horizon, and loads of back-end stuff that will make your favourite lock pick shop an even slicker than the slick slickness from slicksville it already is. Anyway, I'm doing one now and I thought I'd give a quick mention to what I've called 'Three Lock Picking tools I wouldn't be without' - my favourite lock picks really, but trying to sound more sophisticated.  There's no best or worst tool,...

Hello! Over a decade ago, when the internet was still dial-up, and a tweet was a bird noise, I was in your position. I knew nothing about lock picking apart from the fact I wanted to be able to pick locks. Although there weren't sites like UK Bump Keys, there were a few shops with a small amount of lock picking equipment, and the question was the same: 'Where do I start?' Now, things are a bit easier. With specialist shops like ours you can ask whatever you like, knowing there's a team of dedicated lock picking experts to help...

For the BMW lock picking anoraks, here;s a list of the E and F series codenames, great for identifiying LISHI picks and more: Historically, each BMW has carried an E project number – standing for Entwicklung, or development. The numbers have then risen progressively up to triple digits, at which point F numbers have taken over. So browse the BMW codename list below and scratch up on your knowledge. And ponder what could have been; there are numeric gaps which we can only imagine were stillborn projects or new cars that never saw the light of day. BMW F CODENAMESF01...

Hello friends. UPDATE: 8/8/2016 - Discount code at the end of this article, get your Impressioning tools discounted! If you don't know, lock impressioning is where you use a blank key to take 'impressions' from the pins in the lock, file down the impressions, repeat until the lock opens. World champion impressioners Jos Weyers and Oli Diederichsen can both do this in under a minute. I know because I have seen them, in the flesh, and it was magic! Oli Diederichsen, impressioning I'm not a world champion lock impressioner. At best I can do a 5 pin lock in under...