 Okay, this is Alex and I figured while I was doing product reviews. I should review my own my own work at least in part You may have a couple of people have commented on my on this pic which I've been using a lot lately I made it recently from a piece of just carbon steel She metal Tell you about the source at some other point When I made it what I was trying to do is duplicate the ends on my two most used pics From a particular thickness of metal. This is an HPC I don't remember where I got it It does not have a model number on it, but it's an HPC pic also carbon steel. You can see that it's very heavily used So I was trying to duplicate that and that's about a number two Curve by my the way I calculate those things And then this is the Peterson small diamond, and I was trying to replicate that. I think I got it a little bit short but You may have noticed on some of my home brews. There's a lot of I tend to put these little curves in and I find that that helps with the the grip depending on which way you're holding it for me that works pretty well and even See if I can show the Based on the length this groove here actually gives something for the heel of my hand to hook on to To give me a little bit better, you know leverage and Ark on that I didn't get it quite symmetrical So this took me well over an hour to make Well half an hour to an hour there's a lot of filing And a lot of sanding and polishing and so forth. They were really shiny. They're now not because they've been used a lot So probably could use another polish But I really like this pic and I like it because I can be picking a lock I can rake a little bit with the diamond and then when I get to the point where I really need some more precision I flip it around so I'm in here with the diamond I'm picking I'm picking and then I need to you know get a little more precision go in with the hook Screw something up reset go back to the diamond. So What I did I found myself using these two pics. I was like, well, I'll put them together in one so that when I break them And I broke my Peterson. That's a brand new one right there I can I'll have a backup. So this guy's been working pretty well for me this is made out of Just the thickness on it is 0 to 0 Which is a I find a good thickness for me for the kind of picking I do it gets into most of your euro keyways It's strong enough for other locks. It does bend a little bit But it's flexible enough that you can kind of bend it back straighten it out And you know, it'll eventually break but you know, so it goes and it's carbon steel so if you wanted to Normal normalize it and re harden it and you do a very careful job You can do that the stainless is a little harder to do that on So anyway You might want to try making one of these. I've got one or two others that I've made some of which came out pretty well some of which broke and I was just looking for a particular other one that is gone a wall, but Yeah, they're It's it's fun to make your own picks and I find it particularly fun When you can do something sort of clever with them, I'm not going to show that that thing's horrible anyway, so just a quickie and So have some fun You can order the feeler gauge bill had a great link for that. You can also get it off of Amazon I should have a piece laying around here somewhere. Yeah This is I've actually got this marked out to make another oops another one of the similar Similar style this is a piece of sterret. What is it? Oh, two three Feeler gauge This is not sterret, but this is a 040 which I'm gonna use to make some dimple picks But you can see it's laid out pretty much exactly like that one except I've got it backwards, but one tip that I'll just add before I stop is that The most important part of the shape is the top the bottom you want it straight if it's got some little wiggles and stuff You can live with it, right? But this is straight and so filing this to the right to get the shaft to the aspect you want is easy This part getting this and the curve right is the hardest so When I make this one what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna cut and Shape the tip On the top the top of the end first Do the same on the other end and then come in and mill out or scry out the remainder of the material And you can this black is just for my own reference the actual line is down in here It's probably very hard to see but there's it's a line scribed on there Same on the other side But this is where I'll come in with the grinder grind all the black off and then come in with files and finish it off This I've used this sort of technique before where I left a bunch of metal on the bottom and then Came in shaped this and then finished it off that works really well because once you have this down thin If you want to file on these edges in here It's really hard to clamp it right so here I can clamp it very Solidly in the vise, you know go on go in there with my needle files and then And then finish off the bottom on the grinder and with a mill file So you don't have to buy steric stock, but I can tell you this stuff is really hard my carbide scraper Using a lot of or scribe using a lot of pressure barely scratches this stuff. It is very hard. I may not be able to file it So which will be interesting so anyhow, so that's my handy work and You know it gets sanded and polished and it's pretty smooth so But this double-ended thing works great for me only bad thing is doesn't fit in pick cases So that's the downside on it Anyhow, um, this is Alex. Thanks for watching and Have fun and as always, please keep it legal. Cheers