 Well, good morning YouTube. This is Alex with my long-awaited review of the southward Pagota pick set. You may have seen a few of these in a couple of my previous videos. I've been fiddling with them for you know, five days or so since I've got them. J.M. Murdy did a nice review of them the other day. But just a few impressions that I've had of the law of the the picks. So they're you know, pretty standard southward construction. The metal is 0.023 inches or for those of you in metric speaking countries 0.58 millimeters to almost 0.6. Pretty standard. That's a seems like a pretty good thickness. They get in most keyways pretty well. I thought I'd give you or attempt to give you a close-up of the This is the three-point Bogota should be in focal plane now. So you can see it's actually finished reasonably well. This is pretty smooth. This is the top edge, which is what you care about. It's reasonably shiny. I know some of you will take this to a mirror polish, but I think this is more than you know, sufficient. The bottom how well you can see but there's still a little bit of ridging from the etching process, but they do seem to have done something along the top to finish it a little better. Some of them look like they might have even beveled them a little bit. I'd say the shape is also pretty nice, but they're nice and pointy, which I like for Bogota or fake Bogota. And you know, this guy's worked pretty well for me, I'd say. So I would call all of these here this whole set Bogota style based on the shape of the little arcs of them. I don't usually find this one particularly useful for my picking, but you know, it may change. The two and the three seem to work pretty well for most applications where the Bogota fits. And yeah, just to give you a comparison in shape, this is the Sparrows Bogota, I believe. Yeah. So the pitch is a little bit different on these. It's a little further apart. I believe that's a that's a Bogota. I hope that's not the snake. They're kind of hard to tell apart, but the pitch is a little bit different and the um, yeah, and the tips are not as pointy. This is from the Liz Wasel collection. It's actually one of the first sets of picks I bought, but you can see that the Sparrows is a little less pointy. That's the the southward is a little pointier, and I think that's good because it gets you a little better reach and nice deep cuts. So I think that's a nice design. This, I mean, Sparrows works just fine for me. So I've had a lot of good luck with that. Now these guys are also, you know, in the Bogota category based on their shape. And I think the, what is it, Ray or the gentleman who makes, who sort of invented these, he has a couple that have this general shape with sort of random, well not random, but differently placed things, so where they have a gap. I understand the point of these, the idea being that if you have a if you have a lock where the, you know, where the bidding is maybe high, low, low, low, high kind of thing, or you've got a couple high set pins in the back, low ones, and maybe something in the front, that could be pretty useful. Sometimes the regular one will just kind of get in the way in the middle. The criticism I have of these, particularly these two here, you know, they're, the construction's just as good as the others, but this is a, this is a seven pin best key. Okay. It's from, I think it's from one of the locks that Bill sent me. Okay. This, the shoulder is there, so that's about as far, and I mean, that just barely is long. I mean, that thing would fit in there and hit the last pin, and you have the entire thing in there. You wouldn't be able to get this, these two points further in, and on a most of your other typical keys, you know, like this, which is a, just a Y one, if you look at where the shoulder lines up, you can barely get this peak in. Same deal with this one. So, you know, if you can ram this in past the back of the plug, you might be okay, you might be okay, but I find them a little too long to be where, to where you could actually use the, all of the humps on them. And if you compare it to like the three prong one, you can see how much further out the extra bumps are. So maybe that works for some locks, but I haven't found those to be particularly useful. So of these, if I were just buying them separately, let me swing over a little bit, if I were buying, you know, if I were buying them individually and choosing which ones I was going to get, of course it's more expensive, but I would probably just buy these two. And these other ones are more curiosities for me. I haven't really found those to be particularly helpful. Now this pick, which I've been calling the katana, but I have no idea what they, what, if it has a specific name in, in their product literature. Focus, nice sharp focus on it. I've actually had really good luck with this. It works nicely. It's better for narrower keyway, or for keyways, we have a little less room. If you look at the height, it's just a bit shorter. Where's my tool? So the regular Bogota registers about inches, please. About 150. So 0.1415 inches. This guy is more like 11. So 10. So it's about 50,000 shorter, which doesn't sound like a whole lot, but that's actually a ton of room in a tight keyway. Nice little peaks on it. The finish is about equivalent to the other ones. The criticism I have of this, if anybody from south or just watching my video, is that something to point with another southward pick. This bit here, this point, which is nice because you can kind of use it as a hook. But the problem is that when you're trying to get into a keyway, you have to kind of angle this thing up, which sort of defeats the purpose of it being narrower, because this thing wants to just ram into the pins. Whereas the Bogotas, I use a lot of diamonds too, with this slope, they just sort of scoop under the pins. And so I found this guy to be a little bit annoying in some keyways. So a version of this where the last lump, maybe it was stuck out a little more, or maybe they just put a little extra bit of metal there to slip it down. I think that would make it a little bit more usable. Or a version of it like that would be kind of neat. But I like this pick. So I'm going to add this to the set of picks that I have found that I use more frequently. And I'll set this here. Then you have your two more traditional picks, a what I'd call a deeper hook, a medium hook, and a reach diamond, or a deforest, what you want to call that. This is nice for really getting up in wacky spots, but the tip is so fine that it doesn't like to sit on the pin. It just likes to rock right off of the right off of the pin. So it's all right, but it doesn't really get used that much, fiddling with it. This is a nice reach diamond. I've got some other other reach diamonds. It's just fine. Finish on it is not as good. Maybe in a little bit of raking light, you kind of not intended. But there's a little bit of roughness in here, which you really don't want. And that the back of the pick is a little bit rough. Pardon my filthy fingers, but I've been doing a lot of stuff in the garage. So not as happy with that, but the sides are all right. So I would put this in the useful category. And then it comes with four tensors. They're all the same width, nominally. And I think they're the same thickness. Let's check. But nice if I'd done this before I shot it. But so they're 33,000s. 33,000s. Yeah, they're all the same. The difference here is that, if you can see, one of them of each of the sets has been tapered a little bit. They've chamfered off a little bit of the metal there. So the difference in width on the regular one, the stock is about 0.11. And on the reduced one, it's about 0.08. So about 30,000s narrower, which could be good for getting in some keyways. And since with Bogota's, you typically want bottom of the keyway tension, that's nice. I haven't really fiddled with these too much, but they're similar to a bunch of other tensors that I have. But they're pretty nice. And to go in this set, it's not bad. And then these are the same tensors, but with a little flex twist in them. So you get flexier feedback. Here's my impression. It's a nice set. I think it's a good value. I can't remember the exact price, but I don't remember it being too expensive. And so I thought it was worth buying. I don't usually buy pick sets. I usually buy individuals. But I would say that of the picks, these are the four that I would use. The tensors are nice, but you've probably already got a bunch of those. These picks might, I mean, maybe this single Bogota or open diamond, whatever you want to call it, that might be, I'll put that sort of in the middle, that might be helpful. But I usually, if I'm going to come in with a diamond, I'm going to use a diamond. These three, these four here, I think are pretty, I'm not going to say useless, but I'd say they're of limited use. Limited use, yeah. So pluses, the Bogotas themselves are very nicely constructed. They're probably not quite as well shaped and definitely not as well finished as the originals. But the finish is good enough that I think about five minutes with a couple pieces of sandpaper and you'd have them to something you'd call pretty perfect. You know, standard southward handles, pretty good. I like a little thicker handle, but that's fine. So I was happy with the fit and finish overall. I think if you just want to get some southward Bogotas, you might just, assuming they're available individually, you might just get these guys, these three. That's what I would have done in retrospect. I'll play some more with these. And if I find that they're these sort of spaced out ones, if I find they're useful for something, I'll let you know. But so overall, not a bad value. It comes in a little, you saw the case from the other video, but it's nice, keep them separate. So if I had it to do again, to be honest, I probably would have just bought maybe three or four of these, probably these three. And if you already have Bogotas, I would look at this one assuming you can get it individually. This is kind of a cool one. And I might even file that little tip off. But that's a nice pick. But if you want to get a pick set with Bogotas and a few other picks that make it kind of rounded out, not a bad value. And, you know, as always, Southward makes good products. Anyhow, thanks for watching. This is Alex. Have fun and please keep it legal. Cheers.