 How are you too? This is Alex. I recently made the possibly dubious decision to purchase a Com Master Picking Set Keelolima 307. It's a tooling system in fact. I ordered this for one of those deal extreme or something like that. Seemed a number of people using them and they seem to have some interesting shapes and it's like 30 bucks so for I don't know 35 picks or something. So let me take a look at it. Here's the bag on the outside. It's about 6 inches by 4 inches whatever that is in metric. It'll show up on the bottom right in there somewhere. So let's see what's inside. So here we are presented with the inside. I may have rearranged things a little bit. I believe these tensors came with it. So the first thing you notice is that there are a lot more picks than there are slots in this little tool. Another pick case. And another immediate observation is that they have these rubberized handles which I'd say they're comfortable but I don't like the feedback from them. They're a little flexy and numb so you really have to end up keeping a finger kind of in contact with the metal to get good feedback at least in my opinion. But the bigger problem is that they tend to bind in these slots especially when you've got them full up and so I don't know what they were thinking but yeah the rubber just catches on the stuff. Okay so I have gone through with my precision Michichoyo thickness gauge. Good investment if you use such things. And measured all of these picks now. I haven't counted them but whatever. You can see there's quite a wide range of size thicknesses. They've got probably a little bit of manufacturing variance. The 3.5 and 3.6 and 3.4 were kind of close and that may be due to burrs. The 2.0 and 1.9 hard to say. You've got at least three primary thicknesses here. Oh yeah there's a 2.8. So pretty standard thicknesses I'd say. This is my Peterson diamond which has been sanded slightly but I'll measure it down at the base. And that's 0.25. The one exception is this goofy thing which is double. It's not going to focus for me but with this lens but you can see there's two blades. You can hear it. Total thickness on that is 0.60 so the metal is probably 0.30. You know pretty good range nothing crazy. I think these would qualify as slim line. The Peterson slim lines are 0.15 but some of the other slim lines are 0.20 so it's reasonable. And I did have some pretty good luck with one or two of these little really really thin ones getting into some of those circuitous key ways. The kind of unfortunate thing is that the rakes which are kind of dubious to begin with really really thick. So I'm kind of a tall profile on a lot of them. So those are your primary rakes there for normal pin tumblers and they're just that's really thick I think. It doesn't fit in a lot of the locks that I well in a lot of the locks that I've worked with. Okay so these are the ones that I'm categorizing as dimple picks. These are really the only ones. They're that kind of curved curved edge kind. This one I guess is a rake maybe for Kaba or something. I've tried it and it doesn't seem to do anything. You can over set all the pins. But you know one thing I have found it useful for is if you get your pick stuck in a dimple lock you can often depress all the pins and get your pick out. Then there's this guy which is trying to also be a dimple pick I think. A rake and maybe for some really crap locks that will work but not for any of the locks that I've tried it on. The rake part of it is on the order of 0.74 inches or 1.88 mil. It's pretty thick for if you think about the bidding on a key. Okay these were the only two vaguely single diamond shaped things. We're not proper rakes or auto rakes in the kit. Nothing special. Okay so here are your auto jiggler rakey things. Again I don't have a lot of experience with these. They look similar to other auto jiggler locks I've seen on or picks I've seen online but I don't really know much about these. I can't judge though some of them look kind of silly to me. We have these two rakes. They're the same shape as far as I'm concerned. One is 0.028 inches. Either is 0.020 inches. So I don't know if this is to allow them to maybe jiggle around somewhat independently in the lock. It's pretty stiff, springy. It's pretty thick material so I'm not exactly sure what the purpose of that is. So these are the remaining auto rake type things. These two are similar except that I think this one's a bit thicker and this one only has one bump and that has two. I don't know what that's worth. This is really weird. First I thought they put like a single bogota in there and when I was pulling it out and then I realized it was together. So it's like two open diamonds. I don't know how useful that's going to be. They are offset a little bit and then two closed diamonds that have pretty much the same aspect ratio so I don't really know what the benefit is there. That's that. Maybe somebody can comment on the relative value of those things. So these are the ones that I'm categorizing generally as rakes. We can see them all together. We'll zoom in. So these two I'm categorizing as rakes. That's like a snowman or double circle, double ball. This one, you know, I guess you call it an open diamond but it does have these two bumps here. But I'm going to call that a rake type thing. This one, which is, I don't know, it actually has a similar profile to some of these little mini snake rakes or the double hump rakes. So that might be useful for something. It's a pretty thick, that's 036, pretty thick metal on that. Got a city rake, which is actually pretty decent. It's also 036, according to my notes. This rake, which I'm not 100% sure what this is for, maybe for very, very small locks. It's pretty narrow. The total height on that is only like 0.078 or 2mm, roughly, ish. So pretty shallow, so you can get in keyways. But there's not a lot of variance in height on it. You know, maybe plus or minus 10,000. So I'm not exactly sure what that's good for, but we'll see. And then there's this guy, which I don't know. I'm going to call it the saw, for lack of a better term. It's a profile is similar to a Bogota, but not really. The aspect is wrong on the pumps. And it's really thick. I think this was either 036 or 036. Yeah, 036. So it's the thickest metal of the ones. Most of the rakes were pretty thick. The only thing I found this useful for so far is cleaning locks by shifting some lubricant in there and run this back and forth just to run the pins up and down. And it's strong, so you can just use a lot of force. There's a video on that yesterday. So anyhow, those are the rakes. And this, I think, is probably worth the $35 or $30 plus shipping that you pay for this kit. It's a wide, pretty wide selection of hooks. You have stuff that from a really short hook that's 019, really thin material, 020, same kind of shape. This one's actually softer. I don't know why, maybe because I guess the shaft is a little thinner, but you can see the springiness on there. That one's a little harder. So here's a close-up of the hooks with a scale there, so you can get an idea of the dimension. Sorry, I don't have a metric scale. There's a number of these that have sort of a similar shape aspect ratio. So this one has sort of a flatter tip on it. I don't think there's a there's no bump in it, but so you could call that a lifter. Maybe it's similar to a gem. Then you've got different degrees of hook angle, different thicknesses of material, shaft thicknesses. Come over, grab another few of these. A couple more. Again, that's like a little, that's pretty stiff, but you know, flexible. This one has another, it's a flat top, but you probably can see there's a little notch in there. Is that this one? Yeah. It's like a little notch, and that'll sometimes help you grab onto a pin, help you locate the tip of a pin. That's kind of, I find those handy. And then some more hooks. This one came with this sort of rust on it, so I don't know what's going on with that. That's not me. That's a really shallow, I mean, that even, you might even characterize that as a reached diamond. I'm not sure. Very shallow hook. But this one, very thin, kind of flexible, good for getting into little spaces. And then you get into two that are really quite small. I was using one of these when I picked the Eva DPI the other day. They do, they are quite, you know, bouncy, squishy when you get going on them. And this one even wants to go sideways. But you can sure weave those into those little narrow keyways. So they're the hooks. So this is the other tensor that I was talking about. I finally found it. It does look kind of wide. I mean, it's what, it's probably over, over an eighth of an inch, about a little over an eighth of an inch wide. But it's got, here's the the focal length on this is pretty narrow with this macro, but there's the one side and the other is a bit slimmer. I think a little tapered. So here's one end of this guy. So it's a little bit narrower. Let's get a reading on that. Just don't know the end there. It's showing about three and a half mil, 3.3 mil or 0.12. So about about an eighth of an inch. And then the other end is a little broader square. And he's 0.15 inches, 4.03, half a mil difference. This actually works decently for top of the keyway. And it's really strong because of your very rigid feel. Not as good as a pry bar, but in terms of holding and the size, but, you know, for the tensors they give you, not too bad. The other interesting tensor they give you is this one. I've not seen one of this shape before, so you don't get that thing. But then you've got this end, which is like bent over. And I guess that would be potentially good for top of the keyway or maybe for a dimple lock coming in the side. So I've played with it, not been terribly impressed, but you know, so it goes. So here's the case that comes in and took all the picks out of it. It's kind of a lot of wasted space. You can't really get anything in some of these corners. This is center bit. I guess you get a tensor in there. And pockets on the sides. They didn't give you anything on this side. This material is some kind of pretty crappy nylon sort of stuff. And the zipper, particularly when you have all of the picks in there, the zipper is just not very, doesn't give you that warm, fuzzy feeling. It's pretty clear that it's going to break and not too distant future. Little shards of string sticking out and things like that. So I'd say overall it's nice to go to, it's better than a plastic baggie for your picks that you often get. And it's better than paying extra for a case, but you get what you pay for. So not so impressed on the case. So I thought I'd show a little bit of fit and finish on these things. Depending on which pick you look at, some of them have some, you're not going to be able to see it, but maybe a glimmer in the light. But they have some light sort of burrs from the machining process, which is not too impressive. Made it a little harder to get accurate readings on the thickness. One thing I thought was kind of interesting. Let's see if we can get a good view. So here, this, you know, it's really rough here. It's actually not too bad and it looks like it's been ground maybe a little bit on the tip possibly. But this is stamped sheet metal. You can just tell from the cut it really looks like stamped. This other one, which maybe is a little thinner, that has the looks of laser cut for the pick blades themselves. I would say the fit and finish is not as good as Peterson, but close. And I'm not a big, I think Peterson's require a good bit of tune up. Some of them are closer to south order in terms of being ready to use out of the box, but some of them definitely need a little work if you want to get that nice fine feel. So again, you get what you pay for, but these are not horrible. The handle is made out of, I guess, a medium soft rubber. You can sort of see how it impressions there. It's actually somewhat rigid in the, in this. Well, so there you have it. The Klum Master Pick Set Tooling System, Kilo Lima 307. Value, good, extremely cheap. You could spend this much on like three or four of the southward max picks. On the other hand, you can buy some of the lower end southward picks, which are honestly almost as good for two or three dollars each. Peterson's are what, like five. So depending on what you're looking for, you know, I don't know that I'd recommend it as a beginner set. It's got, I think it's actually has too many picks and a lot of ones that are pretty useless and requires a lot of finishing, I think, to make some of them useful. And it really doesn't have a good set of tensors that gives you a broad range of options for tensioning your picks or tensioning your locks when you're picking them. So, but if you're just trying to add some cool stuff to your collection, if you're trying to get a whole bunch of hooks for a pretty low price, I think the hooks alone are worth the 35 bucks plus shipping. So not too bad. One thing I'll tell you, if you order from those deal extreme, those deal extreme people, this took over a month to deliver, to get here. So I mean, I know that you can get express mail across the world in 24 hours, but I guess they send this on a boat or something. So there you go, Clom pick set. Check it out, read other people's reviews, come to your own decision for what's right for your picking style. Anyway, this has been Alex. Thank you for watching. Please subscribe to my feed if you like my videos. And as always, have fun and keep it legal. Cheers.