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I have to be the worst lock picker in the world. Several years ago I bought a Schlage rekey kit and a set of picks from a retired locksmith, and I could not get the touch for picking a lock. I had bought 3 locks off eBay that came without keys, figuring they wouldn't be that hard to open. I was wrong. I eventually gave up and put them on a shelf in the basement. I then found a snap gun on FBM, and bought that. I got one of the locks open with that, total fluke.
But now I might have to change the locks on the house in Iowa, and we picked up some similar knobs cheap from a guy on FBM. It was miserably cold the day we picked them up, and I didn't check them really close. When I got home I figured out why they were so cheap, there were no keys with them. Great. Given my earlier failure, I weighed my options. I ended up buying a fake Lishi tool off eBay. It wasn't easy, but I eventually got them all open, and the two locks I had in the basement. I accidentally let the top pins out of one of the deadbolts, and I saw why I had so much trouble before. 4 spool pins and one regular pin.
Here's the Lock Picking Lawyer with the Lishi. You have to buy a different one for each keyway you want to open, since I only had one brand of lock I figured it was a good enough deal to purchase.
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