Making a pickproof lock to stop honest criminals.
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- Опубликовано: 26 янв 2025
- Designing a mechanism to stop lock pickers in their tracks. Engineering this unpickable lock was a grueling process that tested my patience and had me questioning if it could really be done. Over two months of drawing, CAD-ing, laser cutting, machining, assembly, and testing.
Special thanks to Kendric the Locksmith and & Emerald Locksmith in helping with user testing and pick-ability. Also thanks to Omar for helping with the machined parts of the build.
This project took a ton of work and time to complete, so if you're interested in supporting the development of more of these works you can do so here:
/ worksbydesign
Software Used:
Solidworks
Photoshop
Blender
DaVinci Resolve
Tools and Hardware:
10 year old .002" thick graph paper
304 SS
316 SS
Brass
3D printing from: www.xometry.com/
Laser cutting from: sendcutsend.com/
Hardware from: www.mcmaster.com/
a Drill Press
Files
a Vice
some string
bit of glue
Just wanted to keep everyone updated: Unfortunately no word yet from @lockpickinglawyer or @McNallyOfficial. Ultimately it’s their choice and I don’t want to bug them, but I’m still hopeful they’ll take on the challenge!
If anyone has a connection with either of them and could reach out that would be amazing!
Why don't you send it to his PO box? It's in the description of his channel
@@Kimikashimoo that's my next move, although I may have something to add to the box before I send It out
@@worksbydesign Don't put in underwear though. Mrs LockPickingLawyer is known not to take kindly to that.
@@worksbydesign whatever you do just please don't give up if [when] he defeats it! More likely than not he'll find some simple exploit in a part of the system you overlooked but your underlaying concept is brilliant and it won't actually be testable until you close up all the exploits he finds to avoid interacting with it (which he will probably tell you exactly how to do lmao)
Be careful what you wish for - the lock picking lawyer is very crafty indeed ;) neat design!
I will definitely be taking a few lessons from yours before sending it off haha. And thank you, your lock inspired me to do this! :)
LPL is a magician, he can just command a lock and it will obey. Loved your design but I think WBD may give LPL a little more trouble, idk
Nice to see all the lock-nerds here! 🤗
Its a little easier to pick something when you know how it works. Give this to LPL and ask him to pick before he looks inside.
@Phillip Craggs but if one wer to mass produce a pick proof lock. The very first one sold would probably be disassembled. So in order for it to truly be pick proof, it should be impossible to pick even if you know how it works in great detail.
The anti-tension mechanism is both simplistic and brilliant. I can't wait to see the LPL take this on. I really want to see this succeed.
I said kinda the same thing lol
I’ve got a feeling this’ll take longer than all the Master Locks range combined and then some. That’s if it’s even possible.
LPL will find a weakness to exploit and open it in about 2 minutes, I'm sure.
@@christophermeraz-matato be fair lasting 30 seconds against LPL means it's pretty much unpickable by any human (he is not human)
@@christophermeraz-mata
Are you a betting man?
Respect to the locksmith for keeping at it for over an hour. Cant wait to see LPL's attempt.
i think LPL can used decode by using decoder bar.
I've been waiting over a year for the LPL to do a video about the Bowley Rotasera 200, and I know he's had it that long, still no video.
@@d.-_-.b Anyone know if he ever did try this lock?
@@AP-dc1ks either a shitpost, or you don't watch lpl much. he'd welcome the challenge and definitely would post it. if he had to give up, it would be a truly interesting lock
@@blarghblargh Did he really ever post a video when he had to admit he has no idea how to pick it? I've never seen one like that from him.
Just a heads up, the LPL will look for any work around so that means between the door and the lock may be an option to get tension from. Have all your bases covered.
This comment need more like
as stuff made here's lock showed, the bar is a camover design. if fully engaged, pushing back on it only puts tension on a flat plate
The lock picking lawyer will just use thermite like he has before bro
Right and I called him out for that. He's not defeating the lock mechanism by going around it. It's like saying you defeated a lock because you made a hole in the house with TNT. it's bullshit.
@@BuzzingGoober a lock is as strong as its weakest link
i honestly just love to finally see a channel that makes stuff without a super expensive workshop full of fancy machines
@@loumona76 many people don't have access to expensive machinery
@@loumona76 limitations on your ability make effective execution a testimate to your skill. withought the fancy machines and the limitation of using cnc parts forced him to be more creative with the resources at his disposal and he even ended up with a beautiful result
its more engaging for sure!!
@@mr.beaning9792 CNC parts is a lot. You can order CNC parts of any complexity and shops will do it for you. The only problem is price.
@@unnamellie do you have access to a shop that makes the stuff for you? In my country that's more expensive than renting a machine shop.
@@Dustmadeout sorry, i think i got confused
i thought the parts were cnc but it was something else, I forgot lol
Stuff Made Here's lock was mainly defeated by avoiding picking the cylinder itself, so you might want to add a backer plate and/or some other defense mechanisms. (but I'm not an expert) Awesome lock, super cool to see your design process and how much you were able to make with sheet metal
Thats the troublesome part. Because you know some cheating lawyers will simply bypass the entirety by making a copy of the key or something xD
What is a “cheating lawyer”?
Yeah, LPL cheated on that lock. He took it apart to see how it worked. He didn't go at it blind. If he did, he may not have gotten in to it. Nothing wrong with taking it apart to find weaknesses, but try to pick it first. Then take it apart to look for weaknesses. I stopped watching LPL after that video.
@@inothome LPL was never about trying locks blind. His whole channel is that no lock is unpickable if you're prepared enough. That's why lockpicking exists. It's all about preparation, little about actually picking it; hence why picking locks only takes seconds for him.
@@group_dm My problem was Stuff Made here sent him a lock to pick. Instead of going at it, like it was on a locked door and THEN taking it apart and looking for something that was easy to compromise on it, he just took it apart first. Well, yeah, anyone can take something apart, find the weakness and then exploit it. It would have been nice of him to try and pick it as given. To see how good the design was and then, disassemble and look for weaknesses.
And yeah, having locks in a vise, in a well lit, basically a lab type environment makes it much easier too. Not downplaying his abilities, he is good at what he does, but he also makes it easier for himself too.
Just the fact that it took over an hour for a veteran locksmith to pick the first design speaks volumes. You, a single person have already made more advances in lock security compared to almost all lock brands
I would guess making secure locks isn't that much of a problem, but making -affordable- secure locks is a completely different thing. And the more moving parts something has, the more prone to other failures it becomes as well.
@@kuro19382 the issue with electronic locks is that pretty much all of them can be picked with a strong magnet. an unpickable lock is impossible unless the lock has no way of being unlocked
@@foxtrotauxiliumyou just said that most electronic locks are terribly designed.
@@ok-gs5ly most are but you can have a very good one if you want generally the keypad needs to be a separate Device to the lock itself
*Masterlock sweating in the corner*
You're missing out on millions of views by not following through with LPL. The entire internet would geek over it, don't let up man.
Yep, just came across this video, saw it was 7 months old and assumed LPL would've made a video by now
yup same @@woutchauvaux6672
@@woutchauvaux6672same
@@woutchauvaux6672 Might mean that LPL was actually unable to pick it?
@@rjgraylight he would absolutely upload the video even if he couldnt open it. imagine the views that it would get, a lock even he couldnt pick.
Realistically, a lock that takes an hour is already effectively unpickable. It would be nearly impossible for a thief to pick a lock for an hour or more without being caught. And after the modifications it would likely take even longer if its possible at all. Kudos to you
True, but I think there would be a considerable drop in time spent if the thief knew the lock would be unresponsive to lesser forms of picking and went straight to the set-up we see at the end... of course who knows with the modifications!
@@PatrickKniesler a thief knowing how a particular lock works is extremely rare. And even if it would only take 5 mins. That's still too long. When you are robbing a place you will be in a hurry and with each couple of seconds you will get more nervous. So realistically this lock is unpickable
@@All_SportGG "Pick resistant" is more apropiate, unpickable implies that no matter how hard one tries, it will never be picked.
Also, it depends on the target to rob, a cabinet at X store during work ours, sure time's a premium, but a back door on a house in the middle of the night while you are away? Nobody may even notice someone is there as long as no noise is made.
@@PatrickKniesler The "set-up" at the end is a single tool, you can get your own at LPL's store.
If there were alarms for picking the lock then even at night they wouldn't be able to just sit there secretly and pick for an hour.
Incredible work! I can’t believe this is your first video.
Here’s hoping I see this on LPL soon
Same, and he only has 20k subs!
That time lapsed shot at 9:10 is freaking amazing. So much happening, and it's seamlessly put together. Beautifully done, excellent camera/editing work.
I think is animated. Some frames look a bit off. Still a great shot. It fooled me for a moment. (Btw you can move between frames by pressing "," and "." while the video is paused.
@@Busterblade20 I'm not sure it is. It would probably be more work to fake it all than set a camera up on a rail like they do in astro photography timelapses. Being the engineer this guy is, I'm guessing he's got a kid's curved train track and a stepper motor pulling the camera along on string or something.
@@ArcanePath360 I'm a CG artist, I can see rendering samples on parts of the metal, also he's made the shader have very high specularity, to the point where you can see the reflections of the pins on the flat surfaces of the metal. When his hands are composited over the metal there is no reflective detail, only composited basic shadow. If the shader had a slightly lower specularity, perhaps more scratch detail in the specularity map, as well as more render time per frame, this would be really hard to tell. I myself didn't notice until I read the comments and actually took a look at each frame. It makes sense though, as he has the model in cad.
@@Spoofer5 It seems you have an eye for it then. Some details do look a bit off I admit, such as lighting on the background in the green. When I look at the rest of the backdrop though like the sewing machine, it strikes me as a bit odd that he would take the time to render such assets in 3D. However I think he might be using a map of a 2D image and slightly rotating and scrolling it on a 2D polygon. I've done work in CAD myself, but wouldn't call myself a 3D artist.
@@ArcanePath360 you're exactly right on that part, they are not modeled. You can tell if you look at the sewing machine that it, and the rest of the background is just a photosphere or panoramic image that is giving some slightly weird parallax when compared to the table.
One point to consider: The geometry of the "trap" teeth is still triangular. So there is a slope. If the lock is tensioned slightly (so it falls into the trap), when the pin is pushed upwards as well, it would, via the rocker arms, slightly pull on the slopes. This tension would counteract the lock tension, potentially rotating it back. Even worse, if you add just a tiny bit of tension to the lock, pushing each pin up until the lock rotates back, this would allow the attacker to decode the correct height for each pin. One method to prevent this would be making the slope steeper, up to 90°, to prevent any rocker motion from turning the lock.
I think the tipping point isn't 90 degrees but an arc coaxial with the core. That contact surface wouldn't apply torque. Problem is, the tooth needs to have thickness, which leads us back to the problem with too many teeth. I wonder if it would help to introduce assymetry such that you couldn't tension all the sliders with one rotation. Ideally you want to find a shape such that a pin would provide no feedback unless other pins were in place, but would be in a non-counterrotating trap when you do pick the others.
I think each arm should have a random length trap tooth, so you cant just tension, check the depth, and offset all of them slightly to get the right depth
You could still adjust the height of each pin and rotate the core until it hits a tooth and decode the position :)
I think the core and the arms need an angle over 90 so that as soon as the arms engage with the core it pulls the arms in and provides only negative feedback.
When I saw those secondary arms in the design I immediately thought it would work kind of like a normal lock with only spool pins. lots of counterrotation, but one could still tension off the secondary arms.
LPL is a master, I made a challenge lock that he picked and while it took him a bit of time he opened it no trouble at all. the lock I sent him was just a modified lock I changed a few things on, no where near the level of craftsmanship you've put into yours. Yours is engineering art.
If you changed the direction of the teeth on the bars, and give the core a bit of a claw instead of a smooth ramp, tensioning the core would cause them to lock in more tightly. Neat design either way though.
This is exceptional quality content and editing
agreed, subbed
That lock render was really simple and well put together, lovely work
This video is so well made that I thought you were a much larger channel! You really deserve more attention
My thoughts exactly...
For a first video this is nothing short of amazing quality.
I know, right? 3k subscribers? Those are rookie numbers. We gotta bump those numbers up.
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It was less than 20k views and 2k subs this morning. If LPL gets hold of the lock those numbers will skyrocket.
I’ve put a comment with the channels name on LPL latest vid so people can get to see this vid.
Absolutely, im getting “stuff made here” vibes from this channel.
I liked how you kept this project realistic and didn't just machine expensive small parts, but took cost factor into your design consideration and used cheaper manufacturing methods for your prototype. I enjoyed watching the summarized journey while you solve some of the bugs. Even when one version takes an hour to solve, that's still impressive, because they had to "create" the method to solve that revision. I also liked how you explained your considerations. Lastly, you did good hyping the video at the end, mentioning LPL (Lockpicking Lawyer), as that's the only reason I made a comment.
I think your hand drawing skills are a super visiual tool and how you combine it with your CAD skills in both off your videos is really great. Over all editing and naration ist great. Looking forward to more of your videos. Good luck.:)
The raking joke at 1:40 is top tier
Damn where are all the engineering masterminds coming from? You have almost the same start to RUclips that stuff made here had. One video with insane quality, insane editing and insane engineering skills. 20k clicks in 4 days for a channel that has never postet before? Impressive. Your style reminds me a lot of stuff made here. He must be an inspiration for you.
Definitely gotta try to get LPL to give it a shot. If any vulnerabilities still exist, he'll help you find them so they can be worked out.
i'd like to add to the praise you are deservedly receiving in the comments. you made it look easy, but it's also easy to tell you put a lot of effort into the project. on top of that, you recorded every step of the process and formed a cohesive video. hope you keep up the good work, do take care not to burn out as high quality videos like these are rare and precious indeed.
Really smart design process. I especially like that a "failure" was shown and explained as what it was: just one more step in an iterative process.
Flow of information in this video is great. goals clearly defined. constantly updates scope as more info is learned. Visuals and detailed explanations for understanding. cuts out jargon. Best of all he isn't trying to go outside his means to make this video. 10/10 will use this to rob my neighbor
After I watched this, I thought I'd go and take a look at what your channel has... and I'm blown away! This is your FIRST video?! This is so unbelievably polished!
I'm really excited to see what comes out of this channel in the future!
IT IS??!!????
Whuuut? This has to be up there for most successful initial video. All hail the mysterious algorithm. (I'm guessing the fact that Stuff Made Here found it and commented, and all the LPL comments, is why it showed up in my feed.)
@@curtisbme We have the same first name, last initial, and RUclips Algorithm feed. We must be the same person.
based on my limited knowledge of lock picking, it still seems pickable as long as you know how the lock works. It still seems you can still tension and solve those side levers/traps. You can see that it's possible to tension the "trap" at 4:45. You say that the pin can't move while under tension but there's nothing physically stopping it from moving and applying tension to the side levers and subsequently the "traps". It seems like it would just act the same way as combination serrated-spool pins do. You just keep picking each pin in the order that it binds until each pin stops clicking to get those side levers past the "traps". Those traps act as false sets and it seems, from my understanding, that you would just need to get past the false set for each and every one of those side levers. Don't get me wrong though, this is still going to take a decent amount of time to pick because you're going to have to pick through a crap ton of false sets, but it still seems doable. what you CAN do to make this SIGNIFICANTLY harder (but still not impossible) to pick is to combine this design with combination serrated-spool pins. Don't quite know how the math would work but you'd exponentially increase the amount of false set possibilities by doing that.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though. I'd love to see Lockpickinglawyer tackle this one.
What if the current pins were replaced by telescoping t pins? Or throw in some wafers so you might over set, etc.
And I think removing the false sets as shown at 11:12 will make it even easier to kind of decode the lock. Tension the core, move a pin as far as it goes, you will get a counter rotation. Now just give a little tension on the core and let it counter rotate with the pressure on the pin and at some point the lock will be past the tooth of the side thing and will be able to rotate to the point whre the core interacts with another side lever. If you do that with a Lishi Tool you now know the height of that pin. Do this for all pins and you can just create a key that matches what you have decoded.
And I don't see how that would stop key impressioning, which would also be an option to "pick" the lock.
i feel like with some lump and telescope and bumping it is still possible to force it
I was impressed with the quality so I went to watch the rest of your videos.
This is your first video...
Amazing 😊
Can you explain a bit more how that works? So to move the first pin you'd need to move it up without tension so the side-lever doesn't block the pin from moving up, then apply tension and move the pin into position. But at that point you would need to let go of the tension to do that with the second pin and if you do that the first pin falls down again, no? What am I missing? I know very little about lockpicking!
Holy cow not only is the design brilliant (and LPL really needs to see this!) as a first video the quality is amazing! Can't wait to see more from you! Subscribed~
Excellent result! I dare suggest two changes. Now all the levers are on one side. You can randomly arrange them on the left and right. In order to further complicate the work of the hacker. And the coffin board element is made on a parallel flexure. This will eliminate the additional backlash that can be exploited for hacking.
Great video. Your lock design is intriguing, and the cinematography is really good.
Wow! Insane quality from someone with about 100 subscribers. I would believe it if this channel had millions!
He had 100 ish just yesterday? Already at nearly 2k
@@GabrielRM At 3k now. Crazy growth
he only has one video so far
Oh wow, this really was their first video
I wonder if they have any prior experience with video editing, this is a high quality vid
and they say it's really hard to grow on YT... one vid, 9k subs after 2 days :D sucha great work, turns out you just need to be good at something
This needs more views to promote lock security. I also hope that LPL will get engaged in lock making process at some point
Lockpicker and locksmith here, and I've been picking locks for well over a decade now. I like the design! Just for fun I'd definitely recommend looking up some of the mechanisms in locks from Medeco with their rotating pin design, and Mul-T-Pick for the pin-in-pin design. They're not pickproof by any means. In fact, I find them to be some of the most enjoyable locks to pick. For another "pickproof" idea, you could look into Kwikset Smartkey design (or known by some in the business as "shartkey" partly due to how they tend to fail after years of wear). They can be picked, but if you look into the way they're picked I imagine you could find a way to protect against that type of attack.
And sure, others might also bring up Bowley, but whatever
Amateur lockpicker and not-at-all in the area. When he started to explain his design, it looked like a bit of an overengineered version of a security pin (somewhere between a spool or a mushroom), since the tension would still end up pressing against the pin, and the physics still match. I would love to know if I'm wrong and why, if you have the time to explain
I don’t think you are wrong. It is, for all intents and purposes, basically like a normal pin. It requires tension, it requires the raising of something, and it relies on the subtle imperfections of making anything. It is mechanically equivalent to a pin. In fact, it makes it more obvious; the difference is where that tension is felt.
If you don’t hear back from LPL I’d be interested in picking this. I’ve picked the Enclave that was featured on Lock Noob’s channel which was also designed to be an unpickable lock.
This is a really neat design and your video production is great. Well done and looking forward to see what you do next.
This ist the most Insane Quality of a Video i have seen on RUclips. I will now proceed to watch all your videos this night.
It's certainly interesting to see different takes on how to accomplish this. Stuff Made Here's (who I get the vibe has been a big inspiration based on the presentation style) lock, the Bowley lock (which I use) and now this. I look forward to seeing future projects!
Definitely if LPL gets ahold of this lock I'd expect a good influx if subscribers!
Amazing design and execution. You deserve a large subscriber base. Great job, and PLEASE send this to LPL! :) Subscribed!
11:18 the teeth are not properly designed because pushing the pin will create a counter rotation like with a spool pin. The angle of contact between the gray and purple parts should be opposite. This way, when you push the pin it even tried to turn more (a tiny bit) and then it's stuck.
+1
this
Definitely looking forward to seeing what LPL thinks up to try to defeat it. Others have already commented better than I can how to defeat this version, and I saw your comment that you were still working on it.
One of the big problems with making good locks is that the manufacturing cost usually means cheap, low-quality locks dominate the market and a big part of that is the tight tolerances needed to keep tools out of them. Your design seems like a good way to get around that and make a lock that can be secured with less tight of tolerances, which might mean the cheaply made versions end up being reasonably secure.
BRO 1:43 WAS SUCH A GREAT JOKE. So obvious yet so well executed
Wait what. How does this channel not have 1mil subscribers? This is phenomenal content!! The idea + editing & animations + ultra sooth voice 😌. I'm hooked.
Looking forward to the inevitable LPL video (would also love to see @stuffmadehere chime in with his thoughts of your lock)
Cause he's got one video. :P I'm certain if he releases projects of this quality on a consistent basis, he will find himself with more subscribers than he can count.
Well currently there is only one video afaik. So there is potential, let's see what's next :)
I came here for this comment. LPL worked with @stuffmadehere and would no doubt enjoy giving this lock a try. Interesting design. Well done video. With 4.23m subscribers you'll get a boatload of feedback, the best of which will come from LPL himself. Good luck to you.
Edit: New subscriber now.
I really hop LPL gets ahold of this lock
The problem with this is due to the amount of ways you can pick a lock. Trying to think of every eventuality is hard because people are different and others may think of things that you never would. LPL is very crafty, looking forward to seeing what happens. Ps, showing how it's made will definitely help him pick it...
The point of showing how it's made is to show that it's unpickable. There's no security through obscurity, and sure hiding the internal mechanism would make it harder to figure out how to pick, but it would not intrinsically prevent picking by any means.
@@sodiboo *to show that it's _possibly_ unpickable, but as others have helped point out, the rocker arms end up aiding in decoding, so it's likely not unpickable. but that doesn't make it a bad video by any means, it's a fun project. but yes, 100% agree that security through obscurity is not security.
inb4 he just melts the lock
@@pneumaofficial9581 Well yeah, though I assume he'd take the challenge as non-destructive. This isn't made out of sturdier materials. It doesn't have a hardened steel bar, plate, or pins to make drilling difficult. But none of those speak to "pick resistance" and or non-destructive bypass. He'd 100% look for the pick first, bypass second, and only resort to destructive with permission from the creator. Even then, it's easier to go through a window or the hinges.
I mean you could use a flat "wall" that uses smacking it or something to open, can't pick a lock you don't know exists lol
production quality here is next level.
didn't expect this to be the first video on this channel , can't wait for more
I was so excited during the video thinking about all the possibilities I've seen on LPL channel. Now I'm excited to see him trying to decode this. Amazing work, dude! The video editing, the step-by-step, everything was so nice to watch. Major props!
Epic Project! Ever sense I watched Stuff Made Here make his lock. I have been wanting to watch more lock designing videos. This video scratched that itch perfectly, Great Work!
Glad it hit the spot, and thank you!
when I saw this video, I would have never considered it to be your first one, the quality is amazing, and in less than a week, you are already up to almost 4.5k subscribers, I definetly hope to see what you come up with next, just remember not to be too focused on making each video perfect, or it will never be released
SO TALENTED in every way !!! utterly incredible talent for precision manufacturing, CAD skills and then amazing and entertaining videography. I very rarely watch a video all the way through but this was just something else. How could you not watch it from start to finish and not enjoy the incredible show this RUclipsr has generously put on for us. You will be a rocket to the stars with content like this. Really well done. This is what makes RUclips so great as a platform.
I was also impressed with how the cad designs can be made to move. I wonder how that works.
@@EnergeticWaves probably a very steep learning curve.
If LockPickingLawyer doesn't want it, I'd love a crack at it. Lol
It seems like those sliders act similar to security pins. Those are pickable. The mechanism seems to prevent raking or pickgun methods, but picking it pin by pin should still work. With so many moving parts it's also hard to keep tolerances tight, which IMO is important to prevent setting individual pins easily.
Gotta love this work man, well done on making it effectively impossible for most thief's to pick the lock!
I absolutely love your work, you deserve so many more subscribers, I was just thinking about Stuff made here's "unpickable lock" and how I'd like to see a part two and then this came up in my feed!
Woah I thought this was a big channel, the quality and video effort is fantastic. Hopefully your interactions with the big names on this side of youtube will get you a ton of the attention you deserve.
Wow! Excellent video and a clever design. Looks like it came from a channel with millions of subscribers, so I'm honored to be the 38th subscriber!
Much appreciated, I'm glad you enjoyed the content!
4 days later and at nearly 6k, safe to say it's taking off now!
Im impressed that you're still responding to comments 6 months on, hope LPL gets in touch soon!
great video but 9:11 OH MY GOD THATS THE BEST THING EVER HOLY WOLY MOLY LIKE MY GUY IM SALIVATING RIGHT NOW
Before sending to the LPL, have you tried the obvious and less obvious bypass mechanisms? E.g. is the lock shielded from a bypass driver directly manipulating the core? This thing looks awesome and surprisingly simple in manufacturing so I'd love to see if it's viable.
Everybody pro until LPL tries it. Unpickable lock doesn't exist, and whenever somebody says it does it instantly implicates that he doesn't know anything about locks.
Given he's some guy doing a project and not a team of experts at a company, I would like to see LPL to take a stab without any bypasses unless they're inevitable based on the lock design.
@@WsciekleMlekoLPL has yet to pick the Bowler (?) lock with the U shaped key, and some fancy Abbloy.
@@fmaz1952 Bowley was picked somebody else already.
As far as shielding, the back of the lock has a cover, and a secondary 'step' or bump - meaning a shim would have to turn 90 degrees to get to get between the door and the lock. But I'm sure there's another bypass that I hadn't thought of, or maybe 90 degrees doesn't really matter to an experienced picker.
I have never seen something so lovingly constructed and edited together, the camera angles, the lighting, how many weeks did this whole project take to produce?
Months*
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@@worksbydesign Well it was worth it. This is S-Tier content. A couple thousand people already said it but keep it up.
One suggestion for the core that you split into four parts to make machinable, I would make one half of the cylinder slightly shorter and the other have a full face that covers the shorter half so that you don’t see the split in the middle once fully assembled. Time 11:48 for reference.
Nice tip, I’ll be sure to think of this in future designs
I had to slow the video down at the part where he sketches the idea - just to grasp the concept. It worked, i now understand the little pins and how to use them in the design to prevent lock picking.
You are so organized- and although my brain understands the organization, i am not an organized person in any way. Thank God youtube allows me to slow down and rewind at will!
I watched a video with a similar premise by stuff made here, but you are taking an all new approach that is genius for lack of a better term.
I am happy I saw this before it gets taken down, so that patents can be made on it, when @lockpickinglawyer deems it to be a significant upgrade from modern locks!!! Killer job man!!
Amazing how such a simple channel as LPL has become a legend.
Love your lock, looks great.
you've earned my subscription already. You have one video so far, and just like a certain person who makes stuff in a nearby location, i hope you can grow your channel and keep pumping out amazing content. I can't wait to see what you work on next.
Wow man, that's really great approach to making unpickable lock! Instead of trying to inovate something new and too complicated, you just focused on fondumental problem of regular locks and improved upon it.. and in result you got remarkable lock!
That is definitely not the problem that I thought you would have. When you gave the clue that you were missing something I thought for sure that it was that the pin would drop down into the anti-pick notch when trying to open it (with or without a key) and trap the core.
Luckily those pins and the sliding arms are on different layers, I almost did have that issue though haha
Subscribed immediately! What a piece of art this video is! The editing, the camerawork, everything feels right! Good job! I Cant wait to see this in the hands of the LPL!
Beautiful finish on that lock. Truly a piece of art and technology combined into an amazing creation. I take my hat off to you Sir.
top quality, love how you walk us though the whole process and how you gave a perfect example of how to improve from fixing mistakes, subscribed
Wow! This was amazing video! Just subscribed. And the video production already in high quality! That timelapse and small details and sound effects or audio quality! Keep up this great quality!
Dumb question but can't you kinda feel the point at which the side teeth are locking, so that you can figure out the length of the pin (if you know the general lock design, but that shouldn't be the point)
Looks great. What prevents it from being vulnerable to an overlift attack? It seems you could comb lift all pins, rotate it a bit, then let all the driver "pins" drop back down on the plug due to the wide size of the top of the drivers.
The "serrated arm" has two sides, so if the pins were to be over lifted, the opposite side of teeth will move into the core and it wont be able to be rotated/tensioned... hopefully.
@@worksbydesign ahhh very nice feature, I missed that part!
This is like watching a Hacksmith video, but for practical uses. Nice.
Huge compliment! thank you!
The best part of this design is that it doesn't need any weird, proprietary keys that need to be sent to the manufacturer to make copies of.
Love your design. I've always though that the best defense against picking or decoding a lock, is to have a mechanism that prevents tensioning, until all the pins are set.
Part of the issue is that the tension on the core (against the top pin) and the tension against the security bars are essentially the same thing. The levers just moved the top pin to the sides and made everything more loose. The tolerances are super loose as well, I was excited to see the side "pins" be unrelated to the top pins and interlocked between them but that's not what happened, the "gravestone" pins don't really provide any security.
As a rule of thumb, if you can manipulate it you can control it. And we can directly manipulate where the side pins are.
Great vid! I'd love to see how LPL cracks this too!
Holy cow. after reading through the comments this is your first video on this platform (at least through this channel) and it is amazing. With the designs, the video formatting, the commentary, and of course, the actual testing of it including the effort you put into learning lock picking yourself and thinking up of a design to counter it, its all amazing. I don't know how long this took you to make, all I know is I could never. This really is amazing.
This is really really clever. I can’t wait to see what lockpickinglawyer has to say about it!
3 weeks later
Hello I’m the Lock Picking Lawyer and today I’m going to demonstrate a lock picking technique called “the unpickable lock fallacy” if under any circumstance you are unable to pick a lock, look for weaknesses of the door and surrounding space. If hinges are exposed, remove them. If the wall is made of plaster and not alarmed, break it.
"This brick is binding.."
One thing I’ve seen used a lot is taking a pointy thing and sticking it in the back of the lock in order to turn the deadbolt manually. Now I don’t know enough about locks to know if that’s a concern with your design, but make sure you address it somehow before sending it off to LPL, as he’ll definitely try it. Also make sure to shield attacks from behind the casing, as he’s done that before as well
I’d also like to recommend about sending this to McNally, he’s like Red Hood to LPL’s Batman when it comes to picking locks (as in his method of picking a lock is often just bashing it with a copy of itself so it pops open), could be interesting to see how someone else approaches it
I was screaming internally " Get this to the Lock Picking Lawyer, please " and you mentioned just that. An awesome project, and the first version was already great, taking over an hour to pick, would love to see if LPL could pick the final version.
This is impressive. SMH’s project was awesome but something about this design that’s incredibly elegant being made from 2D parts. Very good design that appears could be manufactured pretty reasonably. Curious to see LPL’s response. Been waiting for SMH to redesign for him.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Absolutely insane craftsmanship. Keep up the great content!
This is awesome! You had an idea, refined it a bit, tested it to see if it was feasible, then did it!
11:35 How does an encoder bar work? I can't get my head around it, a random height limit to each piece means you can't work out how they move in relation to the rest?
Pretty much yeah. It’s has random cuts in it so that if someone were to try to lift all the pins up as high as they can go, they would hit this encoder bar at different heights, and not give them any information about the actual pin height
@@worksbydesign Ah! surprisingly simple - Thanks
So surprised when I saw the number of subscribers and the amount of videos. You are going to get far if you keep doing awesome content like this!
Interesting design. I like it!
Can't believe you're challenging the final boss, The Lock Picking Lawyer himself.
Can't wait! :D
Instant like for those pen and paper drawings. They were amazing.
Normally, people designing hard to pick locks try to prevent access to the pins, but his tries to prevent turning and that's kind of a novelty! Imagine you would now join forces with Stuff Made Here and make a hard-to-access-hard-to-turn lock: that would be insane.
The only pick proof lock is 3 internal deadbolts behind a heavy oakwood door, metal encased square storm surge windows, and the only access is by opening the garage with the remote. Nobody has broken into our house ever.
Your friendly patent attorney here to remind you: get that design on file!
This is an amazing project and I've subscribed, can't wait to see more of your creations and to see this in the hands of LPL!
Just subbed!! Loved it! How long did that project take you?
Glad you enjoyed! It took me just over 2 months, but that did involve a lot of waiting for parts to ship.
so one thing i learned, in order if the check input and the check mechanisms are linked it's more than likely you'll be able to pick, what this lock did, was just move pins and make them a bit funky but if it's all connected while the lock turns then it's still pickable.
You need more ridges on the bars, not less. With just one ridge all the lockpicker needs to do is press one pin until the cylinder stops rotating due to being stuck on a tooth, and adding a bit, a d remembering this value for the pin. Then repeat with other pins. The set all the values and voila.
I was thinking of doing this and changing the profile to more of a hook shape to stop counter rotation. Its great to get this kind of feedback, much appreciated!
@@worksbydesignmaybe you could also find a way to disconnect the ability to manipulate the code once the key is rotated slightly. Like, maybe by using stacks of slices in place of the penis of a rip pin, and making it slide in a tighter hole? Sry for the language, the analogy just makes sense for me :)
@@worksbydesignnormal lock can't use slices there because that's where their secret is, but your secret is in a completely different place and the rip pins aren't doing anything atm
Just gotta say as a first video for a Chanelle this is pretty impressive, very well done, subscribed, and I hope to see more of you in the future
Wouldn’t picking (lifting) a single pin while tensioning the core cause counter rotation pressure just like having a normal lock full of spool pins?
You could be right, I thought about changing the shape of the teeth to stop this, but I figured if it were to counter rotate then you might loose your progress on other pins. Definitely worth looking into though, this could be a problem.
@@worksbydesign That is actually a common issue with more advanced locks. you might get into a deep false set then lose a few pins to set the one you are working on, then you have to go back and reset all of the ones that fell.
One way to make it harder would be to reverse the tooth direction and make matching notches in the plug so that they grab onto the plug and prevent it from turning if pressure is applied. Having varying heights to the teeth and multiple notches for them to fit into as well as teeth on the bottom if you lift the pin too high might be nice. Another far more complicated method would be a split plug that makes it so you need to tension each section individually to attempt to pick the lock.
Bro that’s literally a pease of art, it’s so satisfying watching that thing actually work. You have some major talent, and I can’t wait to see more from you in the future!
not to be a dickhead but that's the most unique way I've seen someone spell piece wrong
i love how companies keep making the same mistakes when designing locks, and then one guy comes out of nowhere and designs the best pickproof lock ever. sir, I need one of those XD
Bro, i've just seen your 2 videos, i have a bachelor in developpement in france, and ur doing a great job, please continue !
Honestly the fact that it took 1+ hour to pick, would make it a success. Most people would give up or get caught by that point.
I had a neighbor who locked himself out of his apartment after-hours on a weekend. I used a paperclip as a rake and a pocket knife's bottle opener as a tension wrench. Took me about 30 minutes lol My first actual lock, I was proud haha