The Complete Guide to Lock Picking [Paperback]

Eddie Wire (Author), Eddie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1984

Learn how to open all kinds of locks, plus how to thwart tampering with locks to protect your valuables. This book is intended for legal entry only, but you'll gain confidence knowing that you can get in through any door without a key! For Academic Study Only

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 78 pages
• Publisher: Loompanics Unlimited (April 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0915179067
• ISBN-13: 978-0915179060
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #894,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's for real -- and it's steep!, October 5, 2000

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Darthjal "Darthjal" (North America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Guide to Lock Picking (Paperback)

In the foreword, the author promises to teach you everything you need to learn to get started in locksmithing -- and he delivers! He describes picking and other bypass strategies for all the major varieties of keyed locks, plus numerous variations. Great for budding locksmiths, curious hobbyists, and people who want to know how that burglar managed to get into their houses.

The only complaint I can make about this book is that it's steep reading. Eddie's instructions are very compact -- maybe a little too compact. I can't stand overkill, but I think this may have been underkill. You really have to have an actual lock and tools in front of you in order to follow what he says. Perhaps more text and/or more numerous, better detailed, fully captioned diagrams would help.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful text, poor illustrations, June 5, 2000

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Pete M. (Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Guide to Lock Picking (Paperback)

The text covers a lot of useful and practical info, and it's worth reading just for that. But, the pictures are very simplistic line drawings that simply don't show enough detail in many cases.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Patience, Patience, Patience., September 19, 2004

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OKL - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Guide to Lock Picking (Paperback)

For amateurs who are just interested in lock picking as a past time, this book is pretty good as it covers the normal locks that you will encounter in everyday life- pin tumblers, wafers and others, just the normal ones though.

the only thing bad about this book is that the information is too compact, sometimes even lacking in diagrams, but if u are one who are good at picturing with words, then this book is for you. it is scary to open the book with the pages filled with words!

just note that this book was printed in 1991 (or for some other reasons), do not expect paragraphing like the modern books.

key to lockpicking: patience, patience and more patience. it took me a week to open my first pin tumbler lock! and it only has 3 pins! adjust the torque wrench and ur pick.