Good thinking on the challenge lock, and nice work on the pins... and very good first video. I just subbed. Thanks again for the challenge lock!

Thank you! and thank you for the sub. Now you have a pair of La Gards, yours with that medeco would be quite the challenging pick along with that spring tension.

Great job! Not easy to get LPL to feature one's work nevermind getting a double thumbs up from the man himself.

@@siegfriedpueschel9581 Thanks! I don't do much picking anymore a few years ago I had a series of reconstructive surgeries on my right and left arms that makes it difficult to pick locks at a higher skill level like I used to so I mostly just enjoy watching LPL and other pic now. I still open locks for friends when the need arises though. 🙂

​@@JessHullI'm sorry to hear that you can't pick much anymore that has to be upsetting but I will say that's the craziest pin job I've seen yet on this channel and any lock that lpl takes more than 3 mins to open is a fantastic lock so great job

Unfortunately that is custom made

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I am sure the gym-locker itself has ways of open even without removing the padlock ;)

Covert sells a hinge popper that could open a gym locker quick as you could use the key on the padlock.

@@thomasholden500 when I was a school bully, I just told the locker owner to empty it. ;) jk

It usually takes him like 30 seconds so yeah xd

You see, if it takes _him_ over three minutes to pick, it’s gonna take everyone else an eternity

take into notice: 3 minutes is enough for someone to notice what you are doing

3 minutes for LPL its 3 days for all other mere mortals

@@p1CM or never for some

I laughed more than I probably should have at this one 🤣

I'd watch it before I would ever watch sports.

thats the thickness in inches so .025"

@Another Wacko ew sports are inferior

:D

Right

@@HaroldSchmarold nobody says a pair of minutes though

“Dang LPL!”

It's definitely up there

Bowley

This was posted in 2017 tho

@@aza7866 That would be my point. It's like saying this lock is the reining champ 4 years running.

I wonder if the 108 thumbs down lost bets the lock was pick-proof! Does Las Vegas keep stats and give odds on LockPickingLawyer?

I literally ordered a full set of Sparrows picks just because of watching this guy. I first became interested because I used to rekey locks at Lowe's and always wanted to learn how to pick locks since

He's very calm sounding, very meditative experience.

Same

Haha me to.

his voice dude it's like some asmr or something

actually, its the core he put in.

That's a Stielhandgranate... Use caution

GG

He said it took him "more than a few minutes" to pick, but it was under 3 minutes :)

@@tinldw well few can be 2 so more than 2 ^^

lol

@@widevader 2 is a couple I would never say I have a few of something if I had 2

Well, It's pretty clearly meant to be a low security lock... even so, YIKES!

that lock was built to scale, it wasn't profitable and they ceased venturing in to the padlock market. its the reason why master locks are sold everywhere and is slightly better than paperweights. profit margins are high and it's a multi billion dollar privately held company. lets face it, if they made really good locks, then they would only sell em once, if they sell you breakable products they will keep selling them to you. locks are made to fail, that's why you pay a premium for the good stuff.

bird718 thats why I want to make my own locks. I just need money and reading up on it and maybe in the future I can

@@yopawpaw7408 making your own padlocks requires "means of production" special machinery, CNC knowledge, welding and bending steel. It's unlikely you can do it on a domestic premises ie your house. You need a workshop that can handle 3 phase at the very least. The reason companies can dominate a particular product is because they have the machines acquired from bank loans or lump sum grants that can allow the output on a massive scale and blueprints put together by some very clever people working for them. The more people you have on a project, the faster it can be done and the more intelligence is combined Thats why you see people who do home made things from a domestic property on their own achieve the bare bones, when you want to make something to a high standard that would have wide appeal you need commercial gear but also understand everything about your product, also borrow ideas from what already exists For example a member of the public might be able to come up with similar to a handcuff style lock, but the complexity of a u lock is too much for most of us with hand tools and a garage. There are those hardy, creative eccentrics who can do it anything with handtools.. But if you want to sell 1000 units to pay your business loan off and make some money for yoursslf, you wont do it from home, but you can if its just for you Im just saying theres a major leap to be taken from hobby into commercial/industrial

@@JamesPhillipsOfficial In my garage and basement I have every tool that it would take to make my own locks (two mills, two lathes, two drill presses, metal casting equipment, two band saws, heat treating furnace, etc.) All run on 120 or 240 VAC single phase. An extremely high tolerance cylinder with jiggy pins would certainly slow down a picker, but it would wear if used much, negating one's work. I'd rather just buy decent locks!

Not quite that long (if you don't count the long intro), but it definitely was a tricky little lock!

@@lockpickinglawyer A question I've always had about locks, why don't they make the core rotate freely unless the pins are correctly aligned, so that you can't tension the lock? Is there some sort of mechanical reason this wouldn't work?

R. M. Tosh it is harder to do in a way that makes sense than you may think at first, because the lock parts are typically very loose and imprecise, but my conclusion is that lockmakers just don't give a shit about security, and their so called "security features" are only for their own security, such as to calm down some big client or to make it virtually impossible for a legitimate user to duplicate the key without paying the lockmaker, if not plain marketing BS.

@@RyanTosh I'm not an expert, and maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean, but since the keyway needs to have holes for the pins to meet the ridges of the key anyway, the lockpicker could just rotate the keyway until the pins fell into place, then pick them normally with tension. Plus the person with the key would also have to line up the keyway exactly right just to open it normally. I could kind of see a way this could work with cylindrical grooves all the way around the outside of the keyway that can be depressed from the side as the key passes, and that's an interesting idea, but the key would have to have pretty big ridges to prevent this lock from just being picked normally, and it would still be able to be done with specialized tools. You also run into the problem that the rotation of the keyway is how the lock unlocks when correctly keyed, so you'd have to come up with a different, more complicated method for the lock to actually open.

Two minutes, forty nine seconds. So decidedly not “more than a few minutes.” 🙂

less than 3

You know everything from the tear down of this lock to the picking has been meticulously practiced over and over Think about how you would do this

Perhaps. I still can't get over the awkward design and relatively low security from a company like LA GARD.

This video is 4 years old

Thanks.

@@lockpickinglawyer first like on the comment :)

Definitely a pain if you don't know how or don't have the right tools on hand. Only a minor annoyance if you do.

Thanks.

You must be an expert picker to pick while you're driving. I've never even picked a pick up to pick with once in my picking life!

@@shadowfall2011 yoooo thats hella funny, i forgot about this comment

Thanks.

Extraordinary Voyage nice!

Little bit of that spool pin instant type 2

wait, you cant eat this lock.

nice!

Nice click

Thanks.

LOL, I would not consider melting this one!

@@lockpickinglawyer It's entirely possible that's a thermo-set plastic, rather than a thermo plastic. That means it will burn before it melts.

@@ericgoldman7533 Nylon definitely is a thermoplastic, it melts at ~260 °C if I'm not mistaken, and can even be used in 3D-Printers... so melting it is a totally real way compromise this lock.

@@hadinossanosam4459 I swear I checked the properties of PA6 before posting, but obviously I didn't, because you are totally right! xD

@@hadinossanosam4459 depends on what form of nylon because there's multiple types of nylon

No... lock is too rare to even consider doing that.

Well, the lock body was meant to be used for locking purposes, but the core that was put into it was made to be a challenge.

It was definitely a nicely made lock. as far as keeping it clean... you would not be happy if you saw a few of my guns. :-(

Doesn't a greasy, sticky lock make picking harder though?

Very well, and if I he can't pick it, ramset the lock

As someone who has worked at the palace of fine arts in San Francisco, it is unlikely that they would come across any locks they could pick in the first place :)

You could do both but filing would be pretty hard to have a decent quality pin (lack precision)

It actually took him like 4 mins...

Productions costs would be unsustainable but I would agree that they can take some lessons

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He's done some work with Sparrows. Namely the black flag dimple pick set, and a disc detainer pick.

Agreed... the foray into the world of padlocks was unimpressive.