Tools of Locksmiths

Video Transcript

"On behalf of expertvillage.com, I'm Jim Koch and today we are going to be talking about gaining access to your house or garage when you have locked your keys in it. These are some of the tools that are commonly used in locksmithing. Some of your old school picks, pocket pick. These are some of the newer style picks. This is probably my favorite which is called a pick gun. A pick gun works by using an impact by slamming the pins up. Basically you insert it in a lock and get a little squeeze, can't hardly see the movement but it does do the trick. Then you've got your assortment of tension wrenches and your plug spinner. You will see here some of the lock picks are color coded. The color coding is kind of nice because it let's you remember which tip is which but it really doesn't mean a whole lot as you can see the newer ones are not color coded. This pick here is my favorite and it is because it folds up in the side of my pocket. At any given time of day or night, you can find one of these tools in my pocket. These are some of the tension wrenches we use. The tension on a lock is very critical part of picking it and depending on the style of lock, there are a few different styles of tension wrenches; some are double sided, some are single sided, some of them have a 2 prong system and it just depends on the style of the lock to which size of tension wrench we would use. "