I wanted to see how easy it would be to make a serviceable cutaway lock with only a finger file and a hacksaw (high polish optional!). It turned out WAY better than I’d hoped and I’ll be making more. Go make one yourself; I’d love to hear how yours turns out :-)
Thanks for the video, have some friends and family interested in the sport of picking so a few of these will be great birthday presents with a nice set of picks
I just can't do it. The channel dug by the saw is 1mm wide and the files just don't fit. I also bought the Draper files, the same ones you use in the video and can't get through the channel. What am I doing wrong?
Looks beautiful! I may have a go to rescue my trapped/seized ABUS Extra Classe. After conversion to cutaway, how would you judge its usefulness for practice? I.e., does the cutaway interfere with lockpicking "feel" realism?
This is a great video. Ever since Bill left RUclips, you have done a wonderful job of insuring no void is left in content encouraging folks to go beyond just picking locks. I just want to add that brass shavings are a mess that can cause some pretty bad problems. You really should use PPE. Even when using simple hand tools. I often end up getting very bad migraines after working with brass if I don't use PPE. A simple mask (or even bandanna worn around the nose and mouth) will prevent breathing in the dust particles. Also glove to prevent transferring the dust from you fingers to your face and micro cuts cause if you try to wash them off you hands. Eye protection is a must when working with any metal!
Absolutely brilliant mate!! The results speak for themselves, I have no need for a cutaway lock, but I will be making one tomorrow now anyways, thanks for sharing this bud. It's going to help a LOT of people out!! :) :) Awesome stuff :) :)
Wow, not only does that look beautiful but it also was way simpler than I would have expected. Love the video man and I can't wait to try this out myself. Keep it up. :)
That's a gorgeous looking lock. You made it look so easy, but I know how much finesse and patience it took to get it right. Brass is so soft that it's all too easy to over cut/file and mess up a project. Well done. 👏👍
It looks great. Wonderful attention to detail. That’s why I like watching your videos. The skill at explaining what your showing makes it so easy to follow you. Thanks for your hard work and great content !!
Later the same day. I picked a Besi cylinder that I had. Turned out great! Took me about two hours. I think the brass in the Basi Lock is very hard. Still a wonderful fun lock ! Thanks again! Chris
This is a very underrated video. I can’t find an item like this fore sale where both the upper and lower portion are cut away. Everything out there is just the upper portion cut away which I don’t see being of any real use without seeing what’s going on in the key housing
Your workmanship never ceases to amaze. If I tried this then it'd end up completely doomed. Still, I may give it a shot, just to see how badly I can embarrass myself.
Thanks Noob - that really took away some of my apprehension about doing this. I've put it off because I have got a lot of picking to do but this makes it a little but more approachable.
That was amazing - I would have never expected this to be possible with just hand tools. Great job buddy :-) BTW: I just came home from vacation today and found your package. Very nice of you my friend to send me this great present - thank you :-)
Wow 😀 you make me speechless every time with your crafting :). That looks so incredible nice :). I still can't believe that this should take just 45 minutes. Absolutely cool, thank you so much for sharing buddy. Have a great weekend and keep it up :).
I made one today 😂✌, but seriously, it does take longer ;D and there is not a lot room for mistakes ;). Even I don't need a cutaway, I wanted at least to try it out and the result looks quite okay to me :) hehe, picked accidently even a cool cylinder with a lot security pins inside. 😁✌🦊
Fantastic work, worthy of being proud of. I pretty much always have to make my own stuff (by never being able to afford anything). And I can say that I never thought of this, somehow... But after seeing how awesome yours turned out I will be hunting for and old euro lock or two to do this myself! Great job and thanks for the inspiration!
Very nicely done man! I will do one myself, think I will also tap the chambers and put hex screws in there. A friend of mine just started picking, ill give him the lock and some security pins and with the hex screws he can swap them out himself.
@@LockNoob well I did allright but my cuts where a bit crooked. I think its a problem with my (very old and wobbly) saw so I got a new one and going to try again.
Fantastic video. 👏👍👍 I've seen these cut aways for a long time, but figured they were milled. It Never occurred to me to use a hacksaw and needle files. The polished contrast is really nice.
Um excelente trabalho, de tirar o chapéu como falamos aqui no Brazil, sou amador e aqui as coisas são mais complicadas, tenho algumas gazuas e tensores feitos por mim mesmo!!!! Dá um certo trabalho para confeccionar, e este é um dos motivos que admiro o seu trabalho, SHOW!!!!!!!!!!
I appreciate the instructional video with hand tools! Very clean work. Cutaways are going to make a great Christmas gift for my family and friends who are interested in lock picking. Merry Christmas buddy 🎅🎄
Nice! I'm definitely going to try that. I've been looking at cutaways, but they are out of my budget range. I'm a case manager at a shelter for homeless senior citizens, so I don't make a boatload of money.
One awesome job my friend I've been wanting to do something like this for awhile but to see someone do it on what it looks like on the end result im going make one of these for a Lefty👍😊👍😊😎✌✌
thats amazing Lock Noob much better seeing the video then just the photos im really going to have to have a go at doing this but most of all i love the fact that only hand tools as thats the way i work only hand tools so thank you for sharing this with us :)
Love it! Like all great ideas, it's so obvious once you see it done. I have a couple of stubborn locks that I cannot pick. I'm going to give this a go, call it cheating if you like 😇. I may also cut the top of the bible and add some grub screws so I can re-pin it without gutting. Thanks for the inspiration.
Thanks for this. Made one from a BKS euro cylinder but I'm still waiting for 4mm grub screws. Dunno how your springs stay there. Also waiting for metal tubes and ejector pins for 3d-printed silver bullet. This hobby has transformed into tool making :D
Excellent job, Ash. By the way... (45 mins per manufactured unit) x (8 working hours per day) x (at least 40 bugs income per unit) = You've probably mistaken your job!! 😁 Seriously, great, beautiful and inspiring job. I certainly would give it a try as soon as I could cuz I don't feel like paying $70 for a comercial cutaway lock.
Thanks as always for the great video. I really liked the idea so I've just tried it out... Sadly I really messed it up sawing sideways and obviously I had to throw away the cylinder. I feel so ashamed after seeing you pull it off so nicely.
Lock turned out great. i think it could be a great training lock for picking "spools", "serrated", "barrel" and etc type pins. more so than the "plastic type" that you really can not "see through" anyway. As you watch the pins you could train your hand and fingers to feel what you are seeing. YEP! i can see it now on the Sparrows website....... "The Noob" Teaching your hand to feel what your eyes see! Order now for the Christmas holiday.......Hay Mr. Lock, thanks for sharing, i enjoyed the video.
I know I am a couple of years late to the party but thanks for the video, it produced a beautiful "training" lock and a mountain of envy all in under 9 minutes ;) I honestly don't think my hands are steady enough to replicate this but I can appreciate it. Just one query, did you make, buy or improvise the plug mounting block that you used here?
You've done well, it's a little more tricky than you made it look. It's quite hard to initially to start the grooves accurately and with perfect spacing. Anyway I'm very new to this game but I'm enjoying your channel...
Well I've just finished my cutaway and I'm quite pleased with it. However its not quite as pretty as yours or as even but it functions and I can see everything. Its a Yale with six spools and I wasn't able to pick before it as I'm very new to this but now I'll be able to see where I've been going wrong.
I have wanted to make a cutaway. I have a Dangerfield in SC key way but I just wanted another. I planned on using a dremmel or something. Now that I see it done I think I'll be more confidant I can pull it off. I have a couple single profile cylinders that are already grub screwed from the factory. If I did a KIK, I'd tap it for grub screws.
I’d probably rig up a Sawzall with a metal blade, go nuts and go too deep. Anyway great vid as always. Stay safe. ,from NYC COVID capital of the world.
![[509] Yale "Superior" (7 Pins, 4 Sliders) Euro Cylinder Picked and Gutted](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/aB70Zy8JlxU/mqdefault.jpg)
![[1432] Inside Perspective: Picking Serrated Pins](/img/1.gif)
I wanted to see how easy it would be to make a serviceable cutaway lock with only a finger file and a hacksaw (high polish optional!). It turned out WAY better than I’d hoped and I’ll be making more. Go make one yourself; I’d love to hear how yours turns out :-)
Lock Noob if i was a bit better with my hands i would probably give it a go, so well documented and explained!
Thanks for the video, have some friends and family interested in the sport of picking so a few of these will be great birthday presents with a nice set of picks
I just can't do it. The channel dug by the saw is 1mm wide and the files just don't fit.
I also bought the Draper files, the same ones you use in the video and can't get through the channel.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks 4 the reply... I just ruined a good brand new Facchinetti cylinder and buyed a Multipick training cutaway lock -_-
Looks beautiful! I may have a go to rescue my trapped/seized ABUS Extra Classe. After conversion to cutaway, how would you judge its usefulness for practice? I.e., does the cutaway interfere with lockpicking "feel" realism?
This is a great video. Ever since Bill left RUclips, you have done a wonderful job of insuring no void is left in content encouraging folks to go beyond just picking locks.
I just want to add that brass shavings are a mess that can cause some pretty bad problems. You really should use PPE. Even when using simple hand tools. I often end up getting very bad migraines after working with brass if I don't use PPE. A simple mask (or even bandanna worn around the nose and mouth) will prevent breathing in the dust particles. Also glove to prevent transferring the dust from you fingers to your face and micro cuts cause if you try to wash them off you hands. Eye protection is a must when working with any metal!
Absolutely brilliant mate!! The results speak for themselves, I have no need for a cutaway lock, but I will be making one tomorrow now anyways, thanks for sharing this bud. It's going to help a LOT of people out!! :) :) Awesome stuff :) :)
Thanks dude :-)
Wow 🤩 what a great project 👍🏻 I’ll try to make one 😎 Thanks!
Wow, awesome job LN. Your attention to detail is second to none!
Very kind of you :-)
Wow, not only does that look beautiful but it also was way simpler than I would have expected. Love the video man and I can't wait to try this out myself. Keep it up. :)
Keep me updated on your progress :-)
That's a gorgeous looking lock. You made it look so easy, but I know how much finesse and patience it took to get it right. Brass is so soft that it's all too easy to over cut/file and mess up a project. Well done. 👏👍
Thank you :-)
It looks great. Wonderful attention to detail. That’s why I like watching your videos. The skill at explaining what your showing makes it so easy to follow you. Thanks for your hard work and great content !!
Thank you!
Later the same day.
I picked a Besi cylinder that I had.
Turned out great!
Took me about two hours.
I think the brass in the Basi Lock is very hard.
Still a wonderful fun lock !
Thanks again!
Chris
Great work! :-)
This is a very underrated video. I can’t find an item like this fore sale where both the upper and lower portion are cut away. Everything out there is just the upper portion cut away which I don’t see being of any real use without seeing what’s going on in the key housing
Wow!!!
That is Beautiful!!!
Can’t wait to make one!
This is up there in the top 5 videos I have ever seen.
Thank you so much!!
Love it!
Chris
That’s very kind of you. Keep,us updated on your Cutaway:-)
Your workmanship never ceases to amaze. If I tried this then it'd end up completely doomed. Still, I may give it a shot, just to see how badly I can embarrass myself.
You never know till you know!
Thanks Noob - that really took away some of my apprehension about doing this. I've put it off because I have got a lot of picking to do but this makes it a little but more approachable.
Thanks 🙏
That was amazing - I would have never expected this to be possible with just hand tools. Great job buddy :-) BTW: I just came home from vacation today and found your package. Very nice of you my friend to send me this great present - thank you :-)
Thanks Potti314 :-) I hope you like the little gift :-)
Great project and a great looking outcome.
Additionally, you could punch in the plugs, to replace them with blind allen screws.
Thanks! And great idea. I was going to do this, but thought I’d keep the vid focussed (this time!) :-)
Wow 😀 you make me speechless every time with your crafting :). That looks so incredible nice :). I still can't believe that this should take just 45 minutes. Absolutely cool, thank you so much for sharing buddy. Have a great weekend and keep it up :).
Thanks Foxxy, I appreciate that :-)
I made one today 😂✌, but seriously, it does take longer ;D and there is not a lot room for mistakes ;). Even I don't need a cutaway, I wanted at least to try it out and the result looks quite okay to me :) hehe, picked accidently even a cool cylinder with a lot security pins inside. 😁✌🦊
redcatimaging please can we see it on RUclips?
@@LockNoob He's away to Tener... i mean Eleven-erife for his holidays bro! Some people eh! Nice job buddy, it's well cool 👍
Wow that is a really great Idea to share !
45 minutes "great!"
Nice thinking, great project to have a go at ;)
Go for it :-)
Looks amazing Ash, this will inspire loads of people to make their own!
Thanks 8 really hope so. I have seen a few very good ones already. Check out Redcatimaging and Leon’s Lock pad’s one’s :-)
"45 minutes"
you clearly overestimated how sharp my hacksaw blade is...
Lol 😆
Fantastic work, worthy of being proud of. I pretty much always have to make my own stuff (by never being able to afford anything). And I can say that I never thought of this, somehow... But after seeing how awesome yours turned out I will be hunting for and old euro lock or two to do this myself! Great job and thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you :-) report back on your success please :-)
Wow absolutely amazing, the end result is perfect, really cool idea, amazing outcome, another great idea from the LockNoob Locklab.
Thanks Daz :-)
Really nice looking cutaway, that is some great craftsmanship!
Thank you :-)
Very nicely done man! I will do one myself, think I will also tap the chambers and put hex screws in there. A friend of mine just started picking, ill give him the lock and some security pins and with the hex screws he can swap them out himself.
Let me know how it goes!
@@LockNoob well I did allright but my cuts where a bit crooked. I think its a problem with my (very old and wobbly) saw so I got a new one and going to try again.
that was really nice, i had to watch it twice after seeing the final product. who would think its would come out that nice
Thank you :-)
Fantastic video. 👏👍👍 I've seen these cut aways for a long time, but figured they were milled. It Never occurred to me to use a hacksaw and needle files. The polished contrast is really nice.
Thank you very much :-)
Um excelente trabalho, de tirar o chapéu como falamos aqui no Brazil, sou amador e aqui as coisas são mais complicadas, tenho algumas gazuas e tensores feitos por mim mesmo!!!! Dá um certo trabalho para confeccionar, e este é um dos motivos que admiro o seu trabalho, SHOW!!!!!!!!!!
That to me looks professional my friend. Very very good job. Thank you for sharing another awesome idea.
Thanks Bobby :-)
I think you’ve started a craze amongst the locksport community! 😂🥚
I hope so :-) I know a few that have tried this now :-)
Great work. And a cool little weekend project.
It is! Go for it! :-)
Did it!! Didn't take 45 minutes though lol. Trust me to pick one with bb plugs. Won't make that mistake again. Great tutorial!!
Fantastic! Hope it turned out good :-)
You just keep amazing me with your fine tooling skills. Simply outstanding
Well, I have people like yourself to draw inspiration from Tipene :-)
Well goodness that thing is gorgeous. I have to make one now.
Do it!!
Fantastic job. Well done and thank you for sharing.
Thank you :-)
Great work buddy, Im going to make one right now, lol thanks for the inspiration buddy!
Awesome! Let me know how you got on!
Amazing video, I really appreciate you putting this idea out there. Really brings perspective to how much is possible with so little.
Thanks 😊
I really think this is great. I'll be making one for all the locks giving me a problem. Very, very cool. Thank you for sharing.
CHEERS M8
Good luck 🤞
Top notch craftsmanship there! I can’t imagine if I tried to do that 🤪😩
You’d be fine, just go steady :-)
Great work, actually much better quality and cheaper to make then the one i got online.
Nice clean job... and no open wounds! yay you.
Actually, there was an open wound off camera on my right hand from earlier in the day where I trapped some skin in some sharp pliers! :-)
I appreciate the instructional video with hand tools! Very clean work. Cutaways are going to make a great Christmas gift for my family and friends who are interested in lock picking. Merry Christmas buddy 🎅🎄
I hope you enjoy making them! Just take your time and take care
Wow, Nicely done! Looks like it come out great.
I’m really. Pleased given how little time I spent on it :-)
Nice! I'm definitely going to try that. I've been looking at cutaways, but they are out of my budget range. I'm a case manager at a shelter for homeless senior citizens, so I don't make a boatload of money.
Very nice video 👍👍👍👌. Specially for the guys who don't have a milling machine. Keep doing this nice stuff 😊.
I’ll try :-)
One awesome job my friend I've been wanting to do something like this for awhile but to see someone do it on what it looks like on the end result im going make one of these for a Lefty👍😊👍😊😎✌✌
Yours looked GREAT too :-)
Lock Noob I've just sprayed it matte black the Bible so the pins and springs will show more on camera thank you very much my friend👍😊
Absolutely loving it, especially the polished look
Me too!
That's awesome. I need to do this for future practice locks
Great result for a manual hacksaw and file. You should be chuffed.🍺😎
Yeah, it turned out better than I thought it would :-)
That’s really cool, I might get me some finger files and have a go. Well done you
You really should give this a go, it’s great fun :-)
thats amazing Lock Noob much better seeing the video then just the photos im really going to have to have a go at doing this but most of all i love the fact that only hand tools as thats the way i work only hand tools so thank you for sharing this with us :)
Thanks Rev :-)
Nice! You make it look easy! I have to give this a try!
Go for it :-)
Wow that turned out great, well done. I might have to try that some day.
Go for it :-)
That turned out really nice! I'll have to try that.
Go for it! :-)
Ah that's fantastic i have a load of old locks i can practice this on. Saved me from spending a fortune on cut aways. thanks
Thanks :-)
Love it! Like all great ideas, it's so obvious once you see it done. I have a couple of stubborn locks that I cannot pick. I'm going to give this a go, call it cheating if you like 😇. I may also cut the top of the bible and add some grub screws so I can re-pin it without gutting. Thanks for the inspiration.
Absolutely amazing. You never fail to inspire me. 😎
Very kind of you to say :-)
Very nicely done sir that really came out nice my friend
Thanks Bill :-)
Thanks for this. Made one from a BKS euro cylinder but I'm still waiting for 4mm grub screws. Dunno how your springs stay there.
Also waiting for metal tubes and ejector pins for 3d-printed silver bullet. This hobby has transformed into tool making :D
It’s great isn’t it!
Excellent job, Ash. By the way... (45 mins per manufactured unit) x (8 working hours per day) x (at least 40 bugs income per unit) = You've probably mistaken your job!! 😁 Seriously, great, beautiful and inspiring job. I certainly would give it a try as soon as I could cuz I don't feel like paying $70 for a comercial cutaway lock.
Great work! Would make a wonderful gift to a noobie!
Yes it would :-)
This came out amazingly!
Thanks for making this, I’m excited to give it a try
Go for it
Very, very nice -- looks like factory cutaway, but no, even better with nice polish -- Good Job!
Thank you :-)
Absolutely Beautiful Lock Noob thanks for sharing
Thanks Iggy :-)
Great job like the polished look
Thanks you :-)
Very nice work mate. That is better than the cut away dimple lock I bought. Awesome job mate. 👍👍👍🤘🤘🤘🍻
Hope you have a go yourself :-)
Pretty cool. Might just try making it myself for practice.
Do it!
Thanks as always for the great video. I really liked the idea so I've just tried it out... Sadly I really messed it up sawing sideways and obviously I had to throw away the cylinder. I feel so ashamed after seeing you pull it off so nicely.
There is no shame; none at all! You tried, you learned and you’ll try again and learn more and probably end up with something great :-)
Newbie, here. Color me jealous. That's so beautiful.
Thank you so much :-)
Wow,excellent job, Right on brother, great video, Great work
Thanks you :-)
Really nice, now I need to give it a shot.
Brilliant! Beautiful work friend! Now get int a lock!
Thank you :-)
That came out great. It looks like it was done on a milling machine.
Thank you !
who said, there are no miracles? Damn this stuff is awesome. THANK YOU.
Thank you :-)
Great tutorial my friend, very cool cutaway lock, pretty fun project! thanks for showing ;o)))
Thank you Tallan :-)
Lock turned out great. i think it could be a great training lock for picking "spools", "serrated", "barrel" and etc type pins. more so than the "plastic type" that you really can not "see
through" anyway. As you watch the pins you could train your hand and fingers to feel what you are seeing. YEP! i can see it now on the Sparrows website....... "The Noob" Teaching your hand to feel what your eyes see! Order now for the Christmas holiday.......Hay Mr. Lock, thanks for sharing, i enjoyed the video.
Thanks Marty :-)
Excellent as always keep up all the good work
Thanks; I’ll try :-)
You did it great Friend!
Thanks :-)
A work of art
Thank you 🙏
Nice one Lock Noob I am looking to try and make one of these
Go for it :-)
First rate video as always..thank you...just starting out this will be a great project
Very nicely done. 😎
Thanks :-)
Excellent job!!
Thanks :-)
Bloody brilliant. That is amazing work. I'm definitely trying this 👍👍
I really hope you do. Keep me updated with your success :-)
Absolutely sweet!
Thank you
great detailed tutorial well done
Thanks :-)
I know I am a couple of years late to the party but thanks for the video, it produced a beautiful "training" lock and a mountain of envy all in under 9 minutes ;) I honestly don't think my hands are steady enough to replicate this but I can appreciate it. Just one query, did you make, buy or improvise the plug mounting block that you used here?
You've done well, it's a little more tricky than you made it look. It's quite hard to initially to start the grooves accurately and with perfect spacing.
Anyway I'm very new to this game but I'm enjoying your channel...
I find the absolute most critical factor is a brand new well tensioned saw blade
Well I've just finished my cutaway and I'm quite pleased with it. However its not quite as pretty as yours or as even but it functions and I can see everything. Its a Yale with six spools and I wasn't able to pick before it as I'm very new to this but now I'll be able to see where I've been going wrong.
Well, you must be pretty happy you did it and I’m glad you did!
That was very good Noob 👍🏻
Nicely done 😊
Thanks 🙏
Amazing job.
Thanks 😊
Gonna have a bash at this!
Go for it!
I have wanted to make a cutaway. I have a Dangerfield in SC key way but I just wanted another. I planned on using a dremmel or something. Now that I see it done I think I'll be more confidant I can pull it off. I have a couple single profile cylinders that are already grub screwed from the factory. If I did a KIK, I'd tap it for grub screws.
Just blown away👍
Thanks :-)
I’d probably rig up a Sawzall with a metal blade, go nuts and go too deep. Anyway great vid as always. Stay safe.
,from NYC COVID capital of the world.
Thanks, you stay safe too!
Impressive! Thank you!
Thanks :-)
Wonderful result. Question, when you sawed off the cylinder, did it have the c-clip on it?
Love that idea
Thanks! 👍😊
Bloody fantastic!
Thank you :-)
AWESOME idea!!! I would love to try this, but how do we know how deep to cut?
A job well done 😁👍🏻
Thanks :-)