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LockPickWorld visual guide
See What Your Picks Are Feeling
This is the hands-on lock picking book built around diagrams, drills, and clear mechanism pictures. Keep it beside your practice lock while you learn tension, binding order, shear line feedback, security pins, and the tool families that come next. It turns hidden movement into something you can see.
178full-color pages
200+clear illustrations
2cover options
5.5x8.5inch pages
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See the Visual Guide in action
Press play for a closer look at the guide. Clear color cutaways show what the pin stacks, tension and shear line are doing, so you know exactly what your fingers are feeling for at the practice lock.
178 full-color pages 200+ clear illustrations Paperback or luxury hardcover
What it teaches
A visual guide from your first pins to bigger lock families
Pin tumbler foundations
See pin stacks, binding order, tension, oversetting, and the shear line instead of guessing from vague feel alone.
Progressive practice drills
Start with simple drills, then build toward security pins, false sets, counter-rotation, and more precise feedback.
Beyond basic cylinders
Use the book to understand wafer locks, dimple locks, tubular locks, disc detainers, bump keys, pick guns, Lishi tools, and more.
Why it works
The book gives your hands a picture to match
Lock picking is tactile, but the first breakthrough often happens when the mechanism finally makes sense. These diagrams show the hidden parts while you work through the same ideas on practice hardware.
Cutaway diagramsColor illustrations show what happens inside the lock as tension and lift change the stack.
Tool choice contextHooks, rakes, tensioners, bump keys, and specialty tools are explained by job, not just named.
Troubleshooting pathOversetting, false sets, and stubborn security pins get practical language you can take back to the bench.
Reference formatPrinted pages let you pause, compare, and practise without scrubbing through another video.
How to use it
Read a page, try the motion, then come back to the diagram
Put a practice lock, tensioner, and hook on the bench. Read the short lesson, try the movement slowly, then use the illustration to name what you felt: binding, spring pressure, counter-rotation, or a pin that lifted too far.
That rhythm matters. The guide is strongest when it sits next to your tools, helping you connect visual lock mechanics with real tactile feedback.
Choose your cover
Same visual course, two physical editions
Pick the Standard Paperback for a lighter bench companion, or choose the Luxury Hardcover Edition if you want the sewn, heavyweight copy that lasts for years and makes a proper gift.
Standard Paperback
$24.99The lighter bench companion: the complete full-color guide in a slim softcover that's easy to keep open next to a lock.
Choose PaperbackLuxury Hardcover Edition
$34.99The collector's edition. Every page is sewn, not glued, and bound between 2.5 mm boards on heavy 157 gsm gloss paper, so it opens wide beside your practice lock and stays together through years of bench use. It's the copy to give as a gift.
Choose HardcoverSkill path
Start with cylinders, then understand the wider toolkit
The best place to start is still a simple pin tumbler practice lock. Learn tension, single-pin picking, and clean feedback first. From there, the book gives you a map for raking, bumping, dimple locks, wafer locks, tubular locks, disc detainers, pick guns, impressioning, and Lishi-style decoding concepts.
For a complete hands-on starter setup, pair the guide with the Lokko Beginners Box. For a deeper tool roll, compare the Dangerfield PRAXIS lock pick set.
Specifications
Book details
| Product type | Full-color lock picking book |
| Pages | 178 full-color pages |
| Illustrations | 200+ full-color diagrams, close-ups, and step-by-step breakdowns |
| Cover options | Standard Paperback and Luxury Hardcover Edition |
| Page size | 5.5" x 8.5" (14 x 21.6 cm) |
| Dimensions | Paperback 8.6" x 5.6" x 0.5" (218 x 143 x 12 mm), Hardcover 8.9" x 5.8" x 0.8" (227 x 147 x 20 mm) |
| Weight | Paperback 12.7 oz (361 g), Hardcover 1.2 lb (552 g) |
| Binding | Paperback: softcover. Hardcover: sewn and case bound on 2.5 mm boards, square spine, end sheets |
| Paper | Hardcover: 157 gsm gloss art paper, printed in full colour on every page |
| ISBN | Paperback 978-1-9193137-0-2, Hardcover 978-1-9193137-1-9 |
| Recorded topics | Pin cylinders, security pins, dimple locks, disc detainers, wafer locks, tubular locks, bump keys, pick guns, impressioning, Lishi tools, repinning, and troubleshooting |
Bench companions
Turn the diagrams into muscle memory
The book explains what is happening inside the lock. A practice setup lets your hands test it. Start with a clear or progressive practice lock if you want to see the pin stacks move, then move to standard practice cylinders once the visual idea has clicked.
Good companion choices are the clear practice padlock for seeing simple movement, or the Dangerfield training practice locks for more realistic practice.
Chris Dangerfield note
Chris Dangerfield, founder: I wanted this guide to show what words alone struggle to explain. When you can picture the pin stack, the shear line, and the effect of your tension, the feedback in your hands starts making a lot more sense.
FAQ
Questions buyers usually ask
Is this a physical book?
This listing is for the physical book. Choose Standard Paperback for a lighter bench copy, or the sewn Luxury Hardcover Edition for a heavyweight copy that lasts.
What should I practise with first?
Start with a simple pin tumbler practice lock, a hook, and a tensioner. Match one page of the guide to one slow practice drill.
Does it cover more than single-pin picking?
Yes. The recorded topics include raking, bump keys, wafer locks, tubular locks, dimple locks, disc detainers, Lishi tools, pick guns, impressioning, repinning, and troubleshooting.
Which cover should I choose?
Choose paperback for price and portability. Choose hardcover if you want the sewn, heavyweight edition that opens wider, lasts for years and makes a proper gift.
Is this useful if I already own picks?
Yes. It gives names and pictures to the feedback your tools produce, which makes practice sessions clearer and easier to repeat.
Put the mechanism in front of you while you pick
Choose the Beginners Visual Guide when you want lock picking instruction you can see, pause, and keep next to your practice lock.
200+ illustrations178 pagesPaperback or hardcover30-day money back
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