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  • This is the lock picking lawyer, and what I have for you today is a really interesting silver bird padlock that's on loan to me from the collection of Peter South.

  • Now what makes it so interesting is this circular dimple core with pins coming from three different directions.

  • Now you have seen me pick similar course in the past, like in video number 6 90 But those locks could be tension from the front.

  • This lock tensions from a tiny little post that's all the way in the back of the corps.

  • If we look at the key, we can see a little notch at the tip.

  • That's what engages the post.

  • So we are going to have to get creative with tension if we're going to open this up.

  • Or at least we would have had to have gotten creative had Peter not already figured it out and made this tool.

  • It fits right in the key way and has a small notch to pick up that tensioning post.

  • Now I'm going to stop for a moment here and make an important distinction.

  • There are many locks out there that people incorrectly believed to be difficult or impossible to pick where in reality they just require a very specific tool.

  • It's those locks that I refer to as toolmakers challenges and not a picker's challenge.

  • Some locks can be both, but that's not the case with this one.

  • This silver bird falls squarely into the category of a toolmakers challenge.

  • Let me show you why that ISS Let's stick this special tool into the key way, and we are a tension in that post on the back, and I'm just going to use one of my normal wave rakes that is the first bank of pins.

  • Let's move on to the second bank and now the third.

  • And we got that open.

  • So as you saw with the right tool, this rakes opened quickly.

  • But without Peter's clever tool, it would certainly be another story.

  • In any case, that's all I have for you today.

  • If you do have any questions or comments about this, please put them below.

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  • And, as always, have a nice day.

This is the lock picking lawyer, and what I have for you today is a really interesting silver bird padlock that's on loan to me from the collection of Peter South.

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