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Oh my sweet lord. I'm watching this as I'm trying to pick mine. I've only got 9 pins inside and it's taking me just as long. I feel your pain and frustration man. I'm struggling so bad to figure this out. I am so so damn sick of it and I absolutely hate it.. You have really done an epic and impressive job picking this one. I was so happy for you when that core turned! Congratulations my friend! 🥰😍😘😘

Very nice

Ow wow nice job 🎉😮

I have to say, this lock was *tough*. The sliders acted liked tapered pins from hell. Most of the time I had to go by sound rather than feel.

This is one lock where an unmodified Monkey Paw seemed to really shine for me. I used a #3. There's enough spacing between the wafers for the nub to hook into without hitting the next rearward wafer. I expect a flat would work as well though.

Oh, I forgot to mention, here I used a Moki #3 flat in 0.5mm (0.020"), but earlier I had picked it with my short 0.025" hook, even with that high #4 behind the low #3. Using the "laying your pick on the key" trick, it would look like I couldn't use a short hook. KithKin's CL has a similar high behind a low, which I talk about here: ruclips.net/video/WZc8oaQNOyY/видео.html By having the pick all the way to the right on the ledge and angled left to lift the pins, I can reach around #3 to lift #4 without oversetting #3. But here I used a deep hook to reach under #3. I was still picking off the ledge, but I had the pick on the very left part of it and picked more vertically.

Great picking and gutting, and reassembly, eventually. have a great day

You have great skills and my respect. My friend

Sweet

Very nice

You’re welcome friend! Thanks for your support and friendship!

It looks so pretty in there. Wow does that purple pop! Damn fine picking my friend! You're a beast! 🥰😘😘

Very nice pick and gut

That’s a awesome pick and gut Marson! That Kraken pro is a cool lock!

Wooooooo!

Thank you! I’ve watched this video several times yesterday and today, great detail and analysis. A lot of insight to get from this video. The details make all the difference in this hobby. I have maybe 4-5 abus C73 and C83s and i have got em all open. I also got myself some Sterlings and i’ve opened them too. I have a 1-star and a 3-star and i wouldnt say i pick them easily but i can pick them with some confidence because i feel what im doing and i have control while picking. I know which pin im on and sometimes its tricky to execute moves, around the warding and without oversetting but i know what i want to do and why. I’ve had a Yale 500 that i got before the Abus’s and Sterlings. I always thought its a 500+ but it looks like the one you show as a regular 500 in this video, so probably its a 500 then? I also bought a Yale KM1 after i picked the 3-star Sterling. The 500 have to be the lock/model ive spent most time on, not a single open. I was very happy when the Km1 got delivered and i noticed it doesnt have those holes in the warding as the 500 have. It seems very similar too abus/sterling, the keyway, the 3-star Sterling also has 6-pins. I probably have 20 hours on the KM1 and about 257 000 hours on the 500 or 500+, not a single open. I want my blue belt now!!! 😄😭😄😭. These YALEs has teached me a lot about what you talk about in this video. The importance of choosing the right profile, thickness and brand. I have a couple different brands but i mainly use multipick and about a week ago i got my first Moki’s. I have to say that the difference between brands is VERY big. If i pick with Moki 0,5 for a couple of hours and then shift to MP 0,5 i really have to reset myself. The difference in feel is gigantic and i cant just go on picking the same way. MP is so much stiffer and sturdier and the feedback is very different, and its very obvious that you will bend/break the pick if you force it too much. Im not prefering one over another. The feel is just very very different and something to be aware of. Ive thought about getting one more 500 and a km1 and maybe try to lube them or something. I dont know if i should spend more time on the two i have, if its helpful, i just feel stuck and dont know how to get over this hump. I could get some blue belt abus cylinders, E20 or E60, i could maybe get my blue belt that way and perhaps working on those give me the skill i lack now and teaches me something about the Yales. I really dont know. The first i will do is to follow your tips and advice in this video. I dont think i’ve tried to use a half diamond on these for example, im excited to try that. It gave me some new hope. I got several new things/approaches to try from this video. Im very thankful to you for your videos. Btw, i have watched your video ”tips for picking the 500+” many times 😄. A question. Shouldnt the 3-star Sterling be more difficult to pick than a 1-Star Yale? In theory it should atleast, right? Sterling is a cheaper brand than Yale i guess, but to get classified it has to meet the standard. Maybe the 3-star rating is more about features like snap/drill protection and that kind of security-features and doesnt have much to do with the lock itself? I need to read the star standard i guess. Oh, i should’ve mentioned this in the beginning. Neither of my two Yale locks has a crazy or difficult bitting. The 3rd/4th pin on both locks are low and they both have pretty high pins after but nothing extreme and i dont think thats my problem since im aware of it and has studied the keys very close to try to understand where i f things up. Excuse my english please, im from Sweden. I’ll try with the half diamond now actually. Maybe thats my key! Thank you very much Marson, you’re doing great videos. You’re very good at teaching and explaining, i appreciate what you do here. Thank you! /Jimmy

A friend of mine is prepping for DBS surgery and wanted some info on it. I sent her some videos and realized I should add them here as well. A basic overview: ruclips.net/video/Ifr_Xu8OFqA/видео.html A more in-depth video for those that aren't squeamish (you've been warned): ruclips.net/video/GL09W9p013g/видео.html

HEADS UP - I still have the box for mine and noticed it doesn't say "Plus" anywhere on it. It says "500 Series". It looks like it should have an original in it but doesn't. Georgia Jim just bought a 500+ to help rank it, and the box actually says "Yale 500PLUS Series", but it had an original 500 in the box. Buyer beware! It's impossible to know what you might get, especially on Amazon. That's where we both got ours.

HEADS UP - I still have the box for my 500+ and noticed it doesn't say "Plus" anywhere on it. It says "500 Series". It looks like it should have an original in it but doesn't. Georgia Jim just bought a 500+ to help rank it, and the box actually says "Yale 500PLUS Series", but it had an original 500 in the box. Buyer beware! It's impossible to know what you might get, especially on Amazon. That's where we both got ours.

HEADS UP - I still have the box for my 500+ and noticed it doesn't say "Plus" anywhere on it. It says "500 Series". It looks like it should have an original in it but doesn't. Georgia Jim just bought a 500+ to help rank it, and the box actually says "Yale 500PLUS Series", but it had an original 500 in the box. Buyer beware! It's impossible to know what you might get, especially on Amazon. That's where we both got ours.

HEADS UP - I still have the box for my 500+ and noticed it doesn't say "Plus" anywhere on it. It says "500 Series". It looks like it should have an original in it but doesn't. Georgia Jim just bought a 500+ to help rank it, and the box actually says "Yale 500PLUS Series", but it had an original 500 in the box. Buyer beware! It's impossible to know what you might get, especially on Amazon. That's where we both got ours.

HEADS UP - I still have the box for mine and noticed it doesn't say "Plus" anywhere on it. It says "500 Series". It looks like it should have an original in it but doesn't. Georgia Jim just bought a 500+ to help rank it, and the box actually says "Yale 500PLUS Series", but it had an original 500 in the box. Buyer beware! It's impossible to know what you might get, especially on Amazon. That's where we both got ours.

BTW, I would love to hear from folks if their 500 Plus binds up in a deep false set or not. I'd like to figure out how common this is or if it's been a fluke for me. My cutaway isn't a good example and my unmodified half only does it sometimes.

Going from a very chatty spool pinned dimple lock to these types of security pins (barrels, tapered pins, etc.) the learning curve changes for a very steep one. For me these locks give almost no feedback on the tensioner. Same for the TESA TE5. I think I'm going to avoid locks that have these types of blocking pins, it's too much of a pain to figure out what they want. 😅

Great demonstration and tips. Thanks for doing this video, cheers

Nice informative video

I feel for ya.. I’m 65 and have a daughter with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy age 32 . my friend had hand tremors all his life. I don’t think he has had any diagnosis in his life.. but later suffered severe alcoholism. Take care my friend. Glad I found your videos… 🙏👍❤️

I finally found your RUclips, I immediately subscribed after watching… great tutorial…

I forgot to add links to the pick handles and scales that appear in the video: - Moki pick scales: www.printables.com/model/924093-marsons-moki-pick-scales - TOOOL/CI pick handles: www.printables.com/model/881573-marsons-lockpick-handles-for-citoool-and-sparrows

I really enjoyed this video Marson. It coalesced a lot of my own thoughts about this topic. Thanks for doing it!

This is an excellent tutorial video. Highly recommend people watch, especially if you are new to lock picking or want to understand the relationship between the pick profiles and the keypins, what's the difference between them all and how do they interact. This video clears up the mystery. Thanks for doing this video, cheers

Lots of detailed info. Love the close-ups. Thanks for sharing. 😎🖖

Whats up with your hands friend? They're extremely shaky. I hope it's no permanent state. No fun to shake that much when you're into this hobby. I hope it gets better. Thank you for the video. I ordered a Yale 500+ but intended to order a 500. I've just had it a couple of days but havent managed to get it open yet. Maybe this video is the puzzle piece i need to do it. Have a great day!

Thanks for making this video. I haven't picked any of these in my collection. Let it be the normal Yale 500 or the Yale 500 Plus. I bought the Yale 100 and the 250 to try and ease into picking these. I should really figure out how to make these cutaways. Right now tapered pins and barrel pins are giving me a hard time.

Very nice! If you ever make an analysis of a standard GEGE, please make me aware. I've picked may challenge locks in GEGE format, but a stock one is murder. 😁

Excellent tutorial on how to pick this type of lock. Great explanations very easy to understand and the accompting graphics were useful. Thanks for doing this video, cheers

Very well put together video - defiently leave vote in the unclassified tab - I added the 500+ there

I think the 500 Plus is easier than the original 500 up until the last spool, which often gets into a deep false set that needs more than just straight up force to get it to counter rotate fully. You can see it in DQ's video at 6:22: ruclips.net/video/jo0PGPHr3m0/видео.htmlm22s I managed to avoid the really deep set in this run, but when it happens, you need to not only apply upward pressure on the key pin, but twist the pick a bit to add some manual counter-rotation. I found you can't do it with a second tensioner like you would with ASSA gins, or you end up dropping pins. If you don't know what's going on, it feels like a binding pin that just won't move. If you aren't careful, you could end up bending a pick. I'm going to do a video on dealing with Yale keyways with 0.025" picks and I'll go over it more then.

Another victory. NOICE! 😎🖖

Victory! 💯💥💫Nice open Marson. 👏👏👏👏🖖😎

I ordered some of the same flats and pointed that are in the Reverend Set from Moki, so I'll be able to say whether my long-distance assessment is correct once they arrive.

I ordered some of the same flats and pointed that are in the Reverend Set from Moki, so I'll be able to say whether my long-distance assessment is correct once they arrive.

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Congratulations on getting your black belt mate. Just fiund you through discord 👌🥳🍻👏👏🎉🤘

Great explanations. Thanks for sharing with us Marson. 😎🖖

Congratulations on your black belt.

Congrats on black belt. You do a great job especially given some of your challenges.

Question! Contact between the jaw and the lock improve feedback? For example pana has more surface area with a lock than the small rig

Nice video! I have a small rig set up I’ve been itching to get a panavise 360 for some reason.

Thanks for the visual explanation part. You do an amazing job! 😀