Basic Lockpick Kit

We have created relationships with vendors and suppliers of a wide range of lockpicking tools in order to be able to pick and choose specific items from their inventory and assemble them into a single, simple beginner's kit. By mixing an assortment of both flexible spring steel and hardened stainless steel we seek to give new lockpickers a wide range of equipment at the lowest price possible. Our beginner's blend set includes two hooks (a standard and a euro slim), two half diamonds (a thick hard model and a thin slender one), and two rakes (a snake and a Bogotá-style wave jiggler).

If purchased online from any vendors that sell such tools, this kit would cost between $15 and $20. However, the kit we offer at training events also includes a handcuff key, an instruction sheet, a set of notes on customizing and modifying your tools, and a tube to contain everything.

Emergency Pick Card

Designed and produced by The Open Organization of Lockpickers, this ISO-compliant wallet-sized card can be kept easily on your person without hassle or fuss, but should the need arise for picks in a pinch, simply snap the card apart and you have a nine-piece toolkit at your disposal!

TOOOL is the sole supplier of these lockpick cards.

Progressively Pinned Lock Kit - Basic Configuration

Perhaps the best way to first learn picking, these cores are all keyed alike but have had pin stacks removed. Start out by getting the feel of your tools by lifting just a single pin stack. Move on to two, three, etc. By the time you reach five pins… that's a conventional door! There's even a six-pin bonus lock for an extra challenge.

Few outlets sell progressive training kits. The only one I've seen is a mere five lock kit for $100.

Progressively Pinned Lock Kit - Advanced configuration

This set of four cores teaches you how to feel and seek out spool pins within pick-resistant locks. Start with just one pin stack, feel how the spool pin reacts. Move on and start searching for spools and setting them.

No one sells progressive kits like this, as far as i know... with spool pins.

Progressively Pinned Lock Kit - Full package

The six basic/intermediate cores along with the four advanced spool cores, all together in a money-saving package.

No one sells progressive kits like this, as far as i know... with spool pins.

Progressively Built Wafer Kit

Like the progressive pin tumbler locks above, these are lock cores that have been specially prepared to allow you to practice and learn. Wafer locks are everywhere... on desks, access panels, and even cars. They're typically easy to rake (or jiggle) but sometimes can give you difficulty. This practice kit will make you a pro with them in no time.

I know of no one else who offers training wafer locks of this caliber.

Advanced Security Pinned Practice Lock

This is quite a formidable lock. It is drilled and pinned with seven chambers. Three chambers have a basic spool style top pin. Three additional chambers have double spool drivers up top. (The remaining top pin is of the basic cylinder style.) This is an outstanding lock both for individual practice and also for learning excerises with friends.

One game we love to play... use the included key to field strip the lock and re-pin any number of chambers with any mix of top pins that you like. Then, give the lock to a friend without revealing which drivers are installed where and let them tackle it. You'll not only learn to pick spool pins, but also how to hunt and feel for them, too!

This lock is only available (to the best of my knowledge) in Norway. I bring them back with me on my return from HackCon and SecVest.

Tubular Lockpick

Currently the best, if not the only, way to tackle tubular locks… this tool costs a bit more than the other items on this page, but it's worth every penny. While the ballpoint pen trick might work on old, cheap bike locks, this is the tool you need for modern, high-security tubular hardware with variable strength spring pressures. Note… this is the "seven pin" variety. It is possible to obtain pick tools for rarer tubular locks, too.

Tubular picks are expensive, yes, but consider that the most popular (and cheapest) vendor online offers these for 85 USD… plus shipping.