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Lockpick Inspiration blogs
Want to learn lockpicking? With the right lockpick set and our English guides, you can open your first lock within a few hours. Whether you choose a lockpicking set for beginners or professional lockpick tools, in our articles you will learn all the techniques step by step.
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What Types of Locks Are There?
20 January 2026
Discover which types of locks you encounter in Europe: from padlocks and profile cylinders to oval cylinders, knob cylinders, interchangeable cores, and wall or mortise locks. This guide explains...
Lockpick Gift Guide Christmas 2025: The Best Gifts for Hobbyists
10 December 2025
Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for a lockpick enthusiast? In this guide, I discuss the best lockpick sets and practice locks for both beginners and advanced hobbyists, including...
Spy Gadgets that Russia doesn’t want to share with you
3 December 2025
Physical security and spy tools surprisingly often go hand in hand. In this article, we look at a number of compact spy gadgets and hidden lockpick tools that are...
Challenge Locks: The Lockpicking Game Among Friends
20 November 2025
A challenge lock is a self-modified lock full of security pins that challenges lockpickers. Here’s how to make one yourself and these are the rules of the game.
What is Core Pull Protection?
23 October 2025
Core pull protection protects your door lock against a specific burglary technique where the cylinder core is violently pulled out of the lock. In this article, we explain how...
GrimGo Lockpick Set: First Feedback
15 October 2025
The first GrimGo lockpick sets have been delivered and user feedback is pouring in. In this article, I share the initial experiences, why this set was developed to prevent...
FEA Analysis GrimGo Lock Pick Designs
24 September 2025
A technical research report on the GrimGO prototype phase, in which an FEA analysis (Finite Element Analysis) was conducted on more than 35 lockpick designs. Discover what insights this...
Lock Picking Guide – Lock Picking belts
4 September 2025
Lockpickers United (LPU) is an international community for lockpickers with a unique Belt Ranking System. This guide explains what LPU is, how to join via Reddit or Discord, how...
What is Locksport? Guide to Our Hobby and Sport
8 April 2025
Discover what locksport is: the popular hobby of opening locks without a key, purely for the challenge. In this comprehensive guide, you will read about the history of lockpicking,...
Why You Should Learn Lockpicking Now
18 February 2025
Lockpicking has an undeserved negative image, but it is primarily a valuable and fascinating skill. Discover how it helps you better understand your own security, how it provides solutions...
TOOOL Europe – The Global Locksport Community
29 January 2025
TOOOL (The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers) originated in the Netherlands and has grown since 2001 into a global locksport community. Discover how the bi-weekly meetings in Amsterdam and Eindhoven...
History of Lockpickers
26 January 2025
Discover the historical story of the rivalry between locksmiths Solomon Andrews and Robert Newell in 19th century America. Both aimed for the perfect, unpickable lock, until Newell managed to...