Started with lockpicking during the Summer of 2005 with inspiration from dutch lockpicking community toool. Bought hacksaw blades from the local hardware store, printed and traced a couple of pick templates and ground them own with my dad’s stationary grinder. Also ground down the tips of a couple of simple allen wrenches to create improvised tension wrenches
It was such a cool feeling to manufacture my own tools and actually be able to open a lock with these tools. After opening my first padlocks I grabbed one of the spare cylinder locks we had lying around and used a dremel to grind holes into the sides to view the actual springs, pins and holes.