Learn how to open a lock without a key using simple homemade lock-picking tools! Create a DIY lock pick using steel wire, paper clips, or safety pins. Watch as a lock is unlocked in just few seconds!

Tactical gear blog ITS Tactical offers this method of making a pick and a tension wrench. Lock Pick(s): Cut the material to a comfortable length for your hand.

Sometimes, no matter what you do, the lock just won’t budge. In that event, it’s time to remove the entire assembly. Slide a butter knife under the collar where the doorknob meets the door and ...

Edward J. Woolly fluid time lock, 1877. Photo courtesy of Mark Frank. A few days later, I drove to Long Branch, N.J., to visit Ed Roskelly, who I had met at the Dutch lock-picking conference LockCon.