The subject to this video is feedback. That is a subject dear to every lock Pickers heart, believe you me. What do we mean when a when we say a lot gives good feedback, or if we say that a lock is talkative? What we mean is that it’s quite easy to work out what is going on inside the lock. With most locks, when you’ve got your pick in there, and when you’ve got the finger on the tension wrench, you can feel an awful lot about what’s going on inside there. What pins are binding and what’s moving against what, whether or not you’ve got something on the shear line, all that sort of stuff.
On the other hand, some locks give you virtually no feedback at all, and they are very difficult to pick. This old Lockwood here is one of the best examples of that. These Lockwood padlocks have been around about 50 years, and in Australia and New Zealand, we see heaps of these. Don’t try and use this as the first lock you try and pick, guys. Half of the time, even I can’t get decent feedback out of these things. That’s not done by design that way. That’s just how these padlocks are. Other locks are designed specifically so they don’t give you feedback, so they’re harder to pick. Every lock gives you some. Some gives you more than others. The ones that do give you a lot of feedback are called the talkative ones, and they are generally the easier ones to pick.
