Does your country have a TOOOL chapter? If not the TOOOL nl community can point you in the right direction
It seems like only English and German/Dutch speaking chapters exist. I'm based in Denmark.
Still, I'll try reaching out to them. Thanks for the tip!
Sparrows are generally garbage, Peterson are OK-ish but overpriced and the company's a bit shit. I'd maybe go for Moki's minimalist set or one of the Multipick sets. Multipick's often seen as one of the best if not the best maker of picks, but they'll definitely cost you.
Here's a doc that has basic info on what you'll want to look for when buying picks, and an overview of the most popular vendors, compiled by an LPU member (Lockpickers United, started off on /r/lockpicking but there's a Discord server too).
If you join LPU's Discord, you can hop on to #lockpicking-serious or #lockpicking-lounge if you have questions
The resources you've sent already seem to be a great help in my lock picking research. Thank you for your thorough response ๐
You're welcome, happy to help.
I'd say the main thing to keep in mind is that you're probably not going to need any very exotic profiles for a while (if ever, really), so don't go too crazy with the picks โ yet ๐ Moki's Minimalist set is a good reference, start off with 0.6mm picks at least, and you can get similar profiles in 0.4mm too if you want to be able to pick locks with thin keyways (they're pretty common in Europe) and can fit them in your budget โ or at least say a 0.4mm medium and deep hook. After a while you'll learn enough to know if you need something that you don't have. Having a large variety of tensioners is probably much more important than having a large variety of picks, but again you'll be fine for a while with a basic set of a few TOK and a few BOK tools like in the Minimalist.
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