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The Ultimate Practice Lock
Learn lock picking with the lock that evolves as your lock picking skills evolve. Quickly change from easy-to-pick novice lock to high security challenge. Thousands of lock combinations are possible with this one practice lock.

To read our beginners guide to lock picking click here

The lock picking practice cylinder that grows as your skills grow.
Pin stack retainer screws let you easily re-key this lock cylinder to thousands of different key combinations. An assortment of extra bottom pins, top pins, master pins, and springs is included. The easiset way to learn lock picking.

Cut Away Locks
Cut away locks are great if you’re having trouble understanding what happens inside a lock. Once you understand what all the parts of a lock do, it’s time to move up to the Ultimate Practice Lock. Unlike cutaway cylinders, this practice cylinder can be picked in both directions and pins don’t fall out of the plug. You can develop the skills that work in the real world by picking locks using your sense of touch instead of by sight.

For the Novice Picker
For those who are new to the hobby of lock picking, this practice lock cylinder can be pinned with only one or two pin stacks leaving the remaining pin stacks empty so the beginner can learn the feel of a pin stack reaching the shear line.

If you have never picked a lock before, we offer a free downloadable how-to-pick guide and an Ultimate Practice Combo Kit that includes everything the beginner needs to get started in this unique hobby.

The Ultimate Practice Cylinder

novice cylinder pinning

difficult pin arrangements for teh advanced picker

For The Advanced Lock Picker
As your skills increase, you can add pin stacks up to a total of six. An assortment of pins are included to allow you to create different challenges such as a difficult to reach around long first pin or a difficult to pick hi-lo-hi-lo-hi-lo pin arrangement. The pin assortment also includes master pins to let you create multiple shear lines like those found in many commercial and institutional locks. This flexibility makes this the perfect training tool for locksport competitions or picking hobbyists.

The Ultimate Challenge Practice Lock
If you've mastered The Ultimate Practice Lock, you can move up to The Ultimate Challenge Practice Lock. The Ultimate Challenge Practice Lock includes an assortment of spool pins so you can learn to overcome pick resistant cylinders. Special security pins are becoming more common every year. A decade ago, security pins were rare. Today, even some of the cheapest hardware store brands include security pins to make them pick resistant. Most locksmiths never develop the skills to consistently open these locks. With practice, you can learn to consistently pick these locks.

Learn to recognize the feeling of a “false set” when a spool pin binds the cylinder and how to reduce tension and rotate the lock back toward the locked position to release the trapped spool pin.

The best way to develop this skill is to start with a security pin in only one pin stack until you have developed the necessary sensitive touch. With The Ultimate Challenge Practice Lock and lots of practice, you can gradually master opening locks with spool pins in all 6 pin stacks.

spool pin binding cylinder

spool pins

Assortment of Pins

The Ultimate Practice Lock comes pinned with 5 loaded pin stacks. That’s 5 bottom pins of different lengths, 5 top pins, and 5 springs.
The Ultimate Challenge Practice Lock comes pinned with 6 loaded cylinders. That's 6 bottom pins of different lengths, 6 top pins, and 6 springs.
Also included are approximately 75 additional top and bottom pins of varying length.
Additional springs are included in two different lengths. Short springs are to be used with tall pin stacks and long springs are to be used with short pin stacks.
Enough master pins are included to allow at least one master pin in each stack so you can learn to pick institutional key systems.
If you choose the Ultimate Challenge Practice Lock, we include at least enough spool pins to allow a spool pin to be added to each pin stack for the Ultimate Challenge.

The assortment of pins will vary with each cylinder. We grab a few of this and a few of that and don’t spend much time counting but will make sure you have at least the number of pins listed above. Typically there will be somewhere around 75 different pins with each lock. That’s enough for thousands of combinations.

Instructions for re-pining the cylinder and training tips are included

Re-Keying The Cylinders
The Ultimate Practice Lock and Ultimate Challenge Practice Locks don't require the usual disassembly, plug followers, tweezers, or difficult access to pins and springs that other lock cylinders require. This lock cylinder has been modified so that each pin stack can be accessed from the top by removing a retaining screw. A hex wrench for removing these screws is included. Changing a pin stack is as easy as removing the screw and dumping the existing pin stack into your hand. A new pin stack is dropped in pin by pin. Bottom pin first, master pins if desired, a top pin or spool pin, and the spring. Finally the retainer screw is replaced. Extra retainer screws are included.

removing the retaining screw to change pin combinations

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The Ultimate Practice Lock Learn lock picking with the lock that evolves as your lock picking skills evolve. Quickly change from easy-to-pick novice lock to high security challenge. Thousands of lock combinations are possible with this one practice lock.

To read our beginners guide to lock picking click here

The Ultimate Practice Lock
Learn lock picking with the lock that evolves as your lock picking skills evolve. Quickly change from easy-to-pick novice lock to high security challenge. Thousands of lock combinations are possible with this one practice lock.