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This looks very similar to the design[0] by Stuff Made Here (and collaborative hardening [1] suggestions by Lock Picking Lawyer)…an excellent set of videos.

https://youtu.be/2A2NY29iQdI https://youtu.be/Ecy1FBdCRbQ

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StuffaMadeHere used friction to keep pin in place between setting and testing. Here, he used many small pin to translate to a discrete combination. Quite different ! And I think more resistant to wear for a real word application.

Beat me to it. Yeah, the idea of separating the input step from the test step is something that was done in that lock as well.

Its the standard procedure for "unpickable" locks before SMH's lock too.

Yeah same idea behind my lock too:

https://youtu.be/7hUonUE1hEY

I'd guess many many people have had this same idea.

Yours is so much simpler and more elegant. Thanks for sharing. Beautiful.

Thanks!

According to the video's pinned comment thread, that lock was sent to LockPickingLayer a few months ago, who never responded. I suppose, from my cousin comment, that it's with the other locks LPL can't pick yet.

Yeah. In fairness someone did link a method that I think could my lock (and this one). Basically you attach a laser to it so you can very accurately tell how far the key turned. That gives you a way to test the pins even though you can't directly manipulate them.

Very very tedious though and I never tried it.

LPL Did both the locks in video 1299: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecy1FBdCRbQ

I quite liked your version. Seems a bit more robust but I know nothing about this space and perhaps it was just that your presentation was fascinating

It certainly seems like a simpler, cleaner design. So did LPL try to pick it? (Edit: I see you wrote elsewhere in the thread that he never replied.)

You might want to see to Stuff Made Here's comment in this very HN Post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31880501

There’s also a lock on that channel he can’t pick - the bowley I think? It has a wild key design.

He can't pick the Abloy Protect2 lock. Less than 10 people in the world can pick it actually.

On its surface, that sounds like a weird claim to make. Even if people would always advertise their ability to pick it, how would you have such an accurate count?

That’s like the old ‘only three people in the world can understand general relativity’.

The Bowley has been picked last year.

https://youtu.be/ai5Hf-wPXFE and he mentions it's a collaboration at 4:29.

I think he has a whole box full of locks he can't pick. He usually doesn't show a lock until he has mastered picking it.

He showed the Bowley before he could pick it. Although he claims that box is locks he can't pick yet.

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