I’m an approved stockist for this lock. The passive pins drop down when the lock is the correct way up. It’s designed to withstand sustained attack. Thieves don’t use picks in the UK. It’s all lock snapping.

We’re just job smacked at the precision & speed every Lock you do Great review & gutting we’ve been interested in this lock for a while due to the UK hype & rubbish reviews on picking them Thanks LPL ✅

I have three of these locks securing the doors of my house. Seems like I made a solid choice so long as Billy Burglar isn't an artisan locksmith. 👍🏻

That lock is definitely what you need in the UK. I have a crap Yale brand Euro lock but it has decent snap protection. Snapping is the technique of choice... But yeah as some other guys observed, you picked it upside down making it way easier I suspect. I'd be interested to see you pick it the way it would be oriented when installed. In any event UK burglary is all brute force and ignorance and let's not forget you are probably the best lock picker on KZfaq, not the average UK burglar!

fascinating to watch a master locksmith at work . Rarely see this level of craft skill in any field these days. Excellent presentation too

An interesting lock. Considering all the good engineering, it's a shame they didn't spend a few more cents on ... better pinning.

The anti-drill department not speaking to the anti-snap department not speaking to the anti-pick department.

Another fantastic LPL autopsy. I have just started lock picking and quickly discovered the contrasting delights of Bosnian Bill and the Lock Picking Lawyer. This is an interesting lock, look at that core! Beautiful. I would be happy to have this on my own door as it has great protection from the typical attack vectors used by criminals. It's nice to see MI5 will be able to come and go as they please

Absolutely. Beautiful lock , excellent demonstration how to, thank you

The most common forced entry in the uk is snapping the euro cylinders as with the right tools its quick. This is still a good lock to protect against this method of attack.

Holy crap!! Ridiculous overkill on the core but still left it that easy. Wow. Thank you mind blowing

Wow, I’m amazed how quickly they went, I have the ABS avocet 3 which took you much longer and was far more complex, it’s one of the longest picks I have seen you do, this one was alarmingly easy. I’m sticking with ABS for now.

Love your video, really wanting to get into the lock sport, watch you and BosnianBill love seeing the pins so i can further learn how to pick

A lot of thought has been put into that lock. Wow. I started picking a few months ago after seeing LPL on youtube. Envious of his skills. Im mot sure i could open the locks he does if i had the keys.

Absolute artistry watching that pick, awesome work!

I had the key snap on me in one of these locks (a long story). The locksmith tried a drill first, when that didn't work he went onto a die grinder, it took more than 20 minutes to get through it. I was happy to have another one of these replace the original.

What a huge mess of pins!!! At my skill level, it would take me days and tons of coffee, to re assemble this lock! Huge respect to you sir!

One thing I have certainly learned from this man: If you pick with the right tools, nothing can stop you from opening the lock. Forget trying to break in, he never ever accepts that as an answer and is illegal. He never drills. Never used a rake gun. Does it by hand. Every bit of it. I love how precise he is. I am learning locksmithint because of him. He makes this look easy and kind of relaxing. I have been lockpicking my own locks so I can get into them myself. And my dads 50,000 lock collection with 5,000,000 keys. I have been able to attain what I need with this knowledge with a tyrannical 6 year old on the mix. This man the LPL is very informative. I appreciate it.

Great picking brother and thanks for the review!

I know you already picked it at least once but your speed is very humbling. Looking at the pins, i'm curious why it didn't take a lot longer. Big fan, massive respect from the UK.

To be fair, most attacks on Euro-format cylinders are going to be snapping attacks, because if you have the tool you need almost no skill to use it. Drilling next, no skill required but can be noisy. Picking least likely, because that needs skill. Of course, if this lock became very common then burglars would have to learn picking skills and then other locks would be a better choice. Right now, for all its faults, it might be the best of a bad choice. Not great, not good, but not as shit as the rest in terms of vulnerability to the most common attacks.

Thanks for another great video. I have one question, what would you use for the SPP to be made harder on this lock?

When I trained as a locksmith I really struggled to pick this lock. ABS three star is similar and it took three TCT drill bits and twenty minutes to drill.

I recently found your videos and found them to be excellent in quality and information. You've gotten me interested in getting into lock picking and I recently ordered a basic sparrow set. I'm a bit tight on cash and am looking for some inexpensive locks to practice with. I purchased one of the masterlock loto locks with the amazing core and a couple other locks that should be easy to get into. I was wondering if you have a video or could suggest a few different inexpensive locks that would be good practice/experience for single pin picking as that style is what mostly interests me.

I have one of these on my front door, the door itself is solid and would resist a heavy beating, and the surrounding handle etc would make snapping impossible so this would only leave drilling or picking as an option. I would be worried about the picking but considering I live in an old house with sash windows, the door locks are the least of my worries.

Youve got the lock upside down - in the UK they are fitted with the core at the top and the pins and springs at the bottom.

Really great educational video. How would this compare to a more well-known brand in the UK like Yale 3 star TS007?

I'm interested, would this be a good project lock? Replacing key pins and messing with the core a little? Or would that really not be viable with the short driver pins making for an easy pick no matter what you do? I'm in love with the destructive defences but everything else seems to miss the entire point of a lock, preventing entry without a key.

Great pick, you make it look so easy, over here in the uk snapping is the main attack method, i suppose Brisant think its not worth bothering with anti pick protection but if this lock is so easy to pick then criminals may consider learning pick techniques which is a bad thing. I may change to a different manufacturer like Mul t lock to ensure the security of my customers.

Great job my friend very nice picking😊😊👍😎👍👍

love to see you pick these locks under stress bet the out come would be a lot different

Fast picking, Awesome..

Excellent pick and gut thanks for the video 👍👍👍👍

Nice job! Is it possible to rotate completely after picking? No protection against picking?

Theres a big difference lock picking sitting down, under studio lights and angling the cylinder upside down in calm conditions, hand clearly penetrating the "door" space, no threat of any police or homeowner/neighbour seeing you with a baseball bat. How about middle of the night, cold, wearing gloves, balaclava over your face, pressure of being caught, trying to be quick...picking would be harder?

One set of locks I'd be interested in seeing if they can be circumvented are the new electronic keyless locks from Yale

You have Jedi level lockpicking skill. Cudos!

You did that very professionally LPL. Just amazing skill. I cant help but wonder why they make such a fantastic lock and still leave some pins passive.

i just dont really get passive pins. they've already done more then 50% of the work, it would seem, so why not make them active pins? they've already put them in the lock and drilled the key.. just need a spring and driver pin.

I bought a dimple cutaway lock. What is the best bang for your buck pick set for dimple locks? Thanks

those 'slugs' are meant to be the anti drill pins, which drop into place when you use a drill, and they 'should' stop your drill from spinning, therefore stopping you from drilling open the lock, I have a custom Euro 10 (+4) door lock (custom designed), and several locksmiths have tried, but those tend to drop into place and stop the drill..

i wonder what would happen if you changed the anti bump stronger spring to a piece of silicone oring with a cross section of 0.104 and cut to length so you can just barely load the top pin into the shell.. that might make it actually pick proof and bump key proof as very few if any picks would be strong enough to lift the last pin to the shear line with a pick.. just a thought.. i know that most viewers here love to unlock locks.. i love to lock them securely.. Gerry L. Finch was a friend of mine.

Really great video brother nicely done

I've never had to drill or snap/pull this lock personally due to its floored pinning, but do you know if its possible to overcome/defeat the active pin in the mid section by ****** or is it hardened steel?

What's the difference from this lock and the newer 3star plus apart from having a thicker key? Also is there a better lock available in the UK

The steel gumdrops seem to be a combo of anti-drill, anti-shim and tolerance wear protection. Try shoving a shim up in that one to see what the tolerance is on the slugs. They *could* also be magnetic dead-pins.

Ultion now have a new WXM cylinder just out, is this one any better?

This lock is a piece of art.

Hey LPL, in your opinion, what’s the better Euro lock. This one or the Avocet ABS mk3?.

The lock is upside down holding up the pins could u try picking it the right way up

All this lock picking your doing on euro cylinders is made me want to upgrade mine , what would you recommend as the best and most secure cylinder on the market? As I guess none are actually unpickable

A bonus of Ultion is that you can have all your locks made to match a single key, so one keys fits all for the whole house. You just have to call them and prove who you are.

If you combine this with the lock lock handle they sell, is the picking issue somewhat mitigated? Obviously only useful if you are inside the property to engage the lock lock handles though. But at that point you get the benefits of the anti snap, anti drill and I assume picking as it won't open with the key.

LPL, you have good hands. I'm talking function here, not appearance. :-) Few, I think, would be the thieves who would understand that lock's internals well enough to regard it a soft target for picking. All those pins! And that impressive keyway. But that's "security by obscurity" which we IT guys well know is a flimsy defense at the end of the day. Not to mention you've just dealt the obscurity a fatal blow.

Ace video. Would love to see the same thing for competitors to this lock like the Avocet ABS 3 and Yale Platinum 3 star. Those Ultions are expensive and if they can be picked so easily I hardly see the point. I wonder if the others are any better?

Well now I'm dying to see it drilled. Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever seen a demonstration on KZfaq or elsewhere of just how well or not well all these anti drill measures work.

I'm stunned a UK company can still produce work of this apparent quality. However, LPL, I'm starting to detect a common theme with various types of locks. As you say, the manufacturers close one door (often very competently and comprehensively) yet they leave another wide open to abuse. There has to be a reason for this. In the case of the Chinese copies it's clearly a commercial decision to cut corners to save money. Many companies such as Master appear to trade off their public reputation and marketing claims which are often grossly exaggerated. But some serious companies clearly spend a great deal of time and money developing and manufacturing very high quality, clever and often sophisticated locks, and in particular cores, which are either extremely resistant to brute force attack, and are equally extremely vulnerable to picking or even raking or bumping, or vice versa. I'm not a lock picker. I lack the patience. But as a former experimental aircraft engineer, I can often recognise both the vulnerabilities and the potential solutions in each case. As a designer, I can often come up with a viable solution. Several actually. Indeed I've junked about a dozen so far. But as a dot connector, I'm left wondering if the lock manufacturing industry is not in a nod and a wink agreement with other parties (law enforcement, intelligence agencies, locksmith trade etc) NOT to make their locks invulnerable to ALL types of attack. For instance, where is the lock core buried 20mm behind multiple hardened spinners? Yes, I'm aware of the issues this would throw up in terms of manufacture, cost and ease of operation, and I've (eventually) figured out viable solutions. Some are actually even fairly simple and cheap to apply. Others are capable of turning an otherwise bar of soap level of resistance (as in the case of your bolt extractor, and Bosnian Bill's 40 second hacksaw attack) into a frustrating nightmare for even the most determined attacker. By this I don't mean I believe I can design lock cores. I can't. I acknowledge that is another discipline entirely, upon which I don't propose to poach. I can however design lock bodies that protect the core - from BOTH picking (denying the ability to tension the core) AND brute force attack, as well as actions that are equally resistant. This leaves me with the nagging question: Why can't they...?

Great job and video like always

This isn't specific to this video but I'm looking for a pick set good quality and with a good variety of picks and tension wrenches at an affordable price it would be greatly appreciated

Looking at it, I'm guessing they've made it to combat the most likely attacks. It would be interesting to know how many locks are defeated by brute force Vs picking. It's just like tanks being more heavily armoured at the front than the rear.

The Euro Locks are one of the best But you have to have the anti snap ones in the door. Most of the doors now have a locking system built into them so you are not relying on just the lock. There is a number of locking catches up the length of the door that engage. making them harder to force open. But when it is backed up with a vibration censor on your alarm system That will set the alarm off before and serious attempt is made on a door or window. No point in having alarm censors that only activate when a door or window is opened because they wont go off if the glass is taken out. The damage is done by then. Nice picking dhow

Do more like this it was very interesting 😁

Would you recomment this cylinder or a Mt5 Plus from mul t lock for a safety update?

Lock upside down. Fitted the other way in UK. Passive pins dropped down Mr Lawyer chops

how much force would it take to brute-force turn a cylinder? Regular one and with security steel pins?

If you were locking your motorcycle which lock would you want? Most bike thieves don't know how to pick locks but they do know how to operate bolt cutters or power cutters/grinders. Some will know how to pick. I need a good strong lock ASAP. Thanks.

WOW! So many countermeasures, and yet so easy to pick. It's like leaving a key under the door mat.

Compared to most U.S. locks, this could guard Fort Knox!

I am curious- does this leave any marks on the lock? Our lock (from a Gardesa door from 2010 with some Euro cilinder- im not there now to check which one it was) was perfectly picked. No marks and the couple of locksmiths who checked it say the security door wasnt locked. They claim a card was used but I've once tried the card technique myself when locked outside and I couldn't get even the thinnest paper in there (I had learned the technique from videos). Somehow I dont think I made such a grave mistake to leave it unlocked and have different recollections but Im starting to doubt myself.. All my family was abroad and I was alone before leaving to join them.. The apartment next to ours wasnt even touched- noone lives there although its full of furniture and stuff. However, the apartment below us where a family with children live, their door which is newer than ours (but allegedly not as secure according to my non expert brother) had marks on it. However the burglars didnt manage to get in. Im so confused as to how the burglars unlocked our door. I wonder whether this was accidental or actually done by experts who targeted us specifically and the attempt at the door below us was just a decoy (I was being harassed lately)

I know quite a few people who have Ultion locks very similar, if not the same as thos on their doors, it seems to be quite a common lock in the UK

Nice solid lock have one myself however is it worth it thieves tend to blow torch the door handle off

when he said "let me check if it's hardened steel" i expected him to bang it with a hammer and see if it'll stay in one peice. Either that or look up it's criminal record

Far more impressed by the skill employed in taking down the mechanism than the actual security it provides. It is obvious that picking skill always trumps design complication.

It looks easy to pick (for somebody with the skills), but all it would need is to recess the key face into a deep counterbore and extended key so the lock picker could not see the lock face.

What is a passive pin? I haven't heard the term prior to this video

Wow! Just make the ultimate lock by manufacturing the cylinder and bible out of hardened steel and put all sucurity pins in there!! They are already close with all that anti drill protection!

11:03 where did that little spring come from in the core? Looks like there's one solitary hole sitting at the front. What would that be for?

I've snapped these clean off because of too much cylinder sticking out of the door on commercial properties, leaving me with one pin to drill then I can turn the cam with a screwdriver. Even easier if they are fitted the wrong way around, snap and just turn the cam. Need to be picked or drilled on a residential building because the handles usually protect the cylinder from being snapped.

How are ya, LPL? Hope you're having a fine and fabulous day.

So what's a better lock that has physical attack protection as well as hard to pick? (within reason for a domestic install)

Have you picked it right side up?

If you get a chance to answer is this lock able to have the core pulled to gain entry. Thanks.

What locks are good then?

What kinds of things would have made this lock harder to pick? More security pins + variety? Spring weight variety? The passive pins actually doing something other than adding to the pin count?

Now thieves will be able to pick these locks ... Thanks for your help. I hope they try it on your house first.

So if we re-keyed the lock with more security pins, would this be a formidable lock for our home?

What is the best Euro lock you have come across?

This guy is the king of lock's g spot's

Are these kinds of lock safe from picking if a key is left in the cylinder and turned, so no key can be fully inserted on the other side?

so you can only pick it if your in Australia or standing on your head?

Why would you make passive pins if you put Springs behind them do they become active?

Hey! No hands behind the lock! And where are the sirens and dogbarking?

@LockPickingLawyer Can you do it again please, but make sure it is the right way up, ie. the core should be top with the word ULTION reading the right way up. Maybe those "passive" pins plays a part? Gravity works wonders.

What are these locks used for? They look so bizzare.

Fortunately, picking is seen as magic by many folks, and many criminals are too impatient to learn it.

What kind of pick did you use?

Incredible what you do but why have you got the lock upside down? Not very real world is it!

This man has everything omg

I have a very similar lock, though from Yale (Platinum 3 Star Cylinder range) which uses a different key profile. Not sure how, if at all, it changes pick resistance. As the door sits directly under a CCTV camera I can’t see anyone spend time trying to pick it though and will likely head straight to more destructive techniques.

Can you re-visit this and pick it the correct way up?