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Visual Guide to Lock Picking (Paperback)

by Mark McCloud (Author), Gonzalez de Santos (Illustrator)

3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Standard Publications,; 2nd edition (May 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0970978812
ISBN-13: 978-0970978813
Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 14.7 x 0.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 182 g

Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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This is the definitive guide for learning the art of lock picking. Inside you will discover the secrets of the trade. By reading this book, practicing, and applying the methods introduced, you can successfully master picking most modern locks. This book makes it easy and gives you the edge to quickly learn and start picking locks today. Not only does this book cover what tools and techniques are needed to pick most common locks, but it also goes through what to do step-by-step; and actually teaches how to do it. It explains what all of the tools are and for what they are used. What really sets this book apart is the vast assortment of illustrations that make everything easy to understand. This really is a visual guide containing pages filled with diagrams and drawings that will instantly show you how locks work, and exactly what to do to bypass them. You can start learning today! Inside, you will find sections about warded locks, pin tumblers, wafer tumblers, and more. These are the locks found on most residential and commercial doors, cars, padlocks, desks, filing cabinets, safes, equipment, vending machines, bike locks, etc... Each section includes an in-depth and easy to understand explanation as to how that type of lock works. This book even outlines several exercises you can perform in order to improve your lock picking skills. You'll be picking every lock in your house in no time.

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1.0 out of 5 stars NOT a stand-alone book and $20 too expensive, Jan 15 2004

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This isn't really a stand alone book. It would have been much better as part of another book such as "How To Open Locks With Improvised Tools"

The illustrations are good, but not that good and the text is lacking in depth.

It's certainly NOT worth $24.95. Get it from the library and use it as a reference while reading another book on locks.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Too small, Too expensive, Jul 15 2003

By	David Arthur Miller (Kyoto, Japan) - See all my reviews

This book has visual helps, but you would expect more and better ones for the price. You can likely learn to pick locks, but the price is too high for the quality and number of the illustrations and the size of the book. Something more should have been included in the way of where the lock picks and other materials can be purchased. This small, expensive book was disappointing to me.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, Jul 5 2003

By	J. B. Barton "Beth Barton" (Saint Petersburg, FL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The pictures are fantastic and the explanations are superb. It covers picking warded locks and making impressions for them, raking, picking and bypassing pin tumbler locks, impact and vibration picking (pin tumblers) and more (I didn't need the wafer lock bit so I didn't read that). It explains how the locks work internally and provides clear cut away drawings to illustrate. It explains the different kinds of tools you may need and how to use them, plus pros and cons of each. This is an excellent resource for picking locks. There is a section on how master keys work. Although I now understand the concept, I don't think I could just go out and make a master key - but I am pretty confident that I could pick it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beginners Will Love It, Experts Will Reference It Everyday!
Most lockpicking books throw around technical terms without explaining to the user what exactly they mean. Not so with "The Visual Guide to Lockpicking". Read more

Published on Sep 24 2002 by Keith Kimmel