Best Lock Pick Sets from the Top Brands

Remember to do your research and seek multiple opinions before buying any tools.

Product links (in alphabetical order). Not sponsored, so please shop around for the best deals! Prices in the video can only be indicative as they may change over time, and may be subject to taxes, duties and shipping cost depending on your location. As always, exchange rates will vary too, so make sure you know what your overall costs will be.

Bare Bones:

Covert Instruments:

Dangerfield:

Law Lock Tools:

Multipick:

Peterson:

Southord:

Sparrows:

Toool

Wendt

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[RolandsDad]

I bought the Sparrows Kickstart years ago and began the hobby with serious interest. It would be about a year of picking as a hobby and finding more and more aggressive locks and joining Toool before finally becoming a locksmith myself for a short time. Videos from Bosnianbill got me started, but I'm glad to see Noob is still hanging around!

I still use picks from that very set to this day. Don't get too hung up on profiles or brands, just start picking. As your skill grows you will know what you prefer and actually need. A good hook (I prefer Peterson Gems, myself) will give you almost all the legs you need, and a city rake and a wave profile will get you into raking just fine.

You can never have enough options for turners, however. Top of the keyway isn't my first choice, but sometimes there is no option. Save on picks, buy locks to pick instead. I have used windshield wiper inserts before, plenty to manufacture my own tools. A friend of mine was so impatient to wait for his picks he made his own out of old sawzall blades. It's just moving pins. Try not to complicate it versus budget. So much of picking is about the challenge of figuring it out yourself.

[cmarano]

Nice to see another overview of sets for new lock pickers. Locksport, as a hobby, is growing quickly and it's good to do what we can to steer folks away from junk sets and towards tools that will last them and encourage enjoyment of the sport.

[CrankyLockPicker]

Thanks Locknoob :-)
I agree, I have different sets and like picks from them all.
I must admit to my favourite being the MONKEY PAW! Loved it from day one!
The profile helps me to centre the pick on the pin, especially having bigger hands.
I would recommend that to new pickers all day long ⭐️

[unspeakableoaf]

Great overview as usual. I'm outside the EU, and local sellers compete to charge as much as possible it seems, so for most of the recommended sets in the video I can usually get the best deals from online store in Germany. Recommended if you're stuck somewhere small.

I went with two sets from different manufacturers (SouthOrd and Sparrows), then I'm looking at single picks whenever I'm building up. Possibly a third brand, since that's readily available. I also made and modified tension tools, because the regular kits don't come with ones I find comfy. They keep flying off into a wall!

[SonicAlpha]

Law Lock Tools are fantastic. I bought the Valyrian set back in the dark days of 2020, and it's a solid kit.

[Mex_the_Fox]

My first set was Southord, don't remember which one, but the picks were soft as butter 😅😅😅 after that I switched to Multipick and never regretted it!

[Bubba-nineteen]

I love the video. I would also love to see a video on budget and "worth it" kits. Meaning kits that, while not necessarily cheap, are suitable kits to invest in for intermediate locksporters. I have several kits from Sparrows and would love to branch out, but I'm unsure about other kits. I'm just intermediate level, I would say. I've been playing around for a few years on my locks and have gotten bored of the basic kits. But im not sure what to invest in next for slightly more than beginner kits

[DoctorHogmaster]

Nice review! I think the TOOOL picks are made by Southern Specialties, who also made the first Covert Instruments picks before CI started designing their own and went to an alternative manufacturer.

[FFVison]

I remember my first set of picks and they were my only ones for the longest time. The SouthOrd MPXS-14. It was bottom of the keyway wrenches and I remember using the heck out of my medium hook. This was what I developed my feel for and when I did get other pick sets later on, I was never as good as I was with my first SouthOrd medium hook and I never really got that great with raking, but I loved to SPP with that. The "pouch" it came with though was basically 2 straps of leather sewn together with some cheap stitching and had a snap button on one flap to hold the picks in. The stitching gave up long ago and I did what any good broke young adult would do in that situation. I wrapped the bottom with duct tape to hold it together.
The picks eventually made it into one of the pouches I had gotten from a Peterson set, but unfortunately that got lost. I do also have a Sparrows set, but I find the sort of wrapped handle to be a bit weird for me. I kind of suck at picking now since I haven't really done it much in years and I might consider buying a new set in the future where I have some money.

[chriscapune]

Great review 😃 always a tough choice 😅 so many options these days.
👏👍🐾🐈‍⬛🍻👍

[LockFumbler]

Great overview! I love my Multipick, but also my Moki's. I have not tired a lot of other brand unfortunately though. I just know to stay away from too cheap amazon/chinesium sets, thats what I learned early on since I had one of these Goso sets you also started with iirc. Thanks for creating this 👋

[feekygucker]

Valerian is the only serious set I’ve ever bought or needed to date. I found out after I got it that they could be considered my local manufacturer 🙂.

[bojanjovanovic]

Nice review, i've been using bunch of Chinese picks and had great success with them. But got fed up modifying them to make it work so can't wait for multipik lock noob set to arrive in 2 days

[McFennec]

An Video about the Chinese lock pick, and one about Moki and Jimmy long could be nice.

[martinist]

Grt content as always somehow I think it's good for beginners to have a rack in the set nothing gives a confidence boost like a quick open on a rake as for picks how many beginners locks need much more than a short hook but tensioners are the most important to have a large variety I always think tension is such a undersold part of picking if that makes sense still only my thoughts and disagreement is welcome
Keep up the videos

[GarmrNL]

I started with the exact same kit from Southord in 2011! I still use it regularly :-)

[jmweld]

Thanks Lock Noob I appreciate your content it has made my entry to the hobby fun !!

[ostar-enec]

I think a better choice from sparrows would be the tuxedo set. I got it and I really like it, it's cheap, high quality steel and a big range of profiles.

[LasermanSteam]

Any update on the best "predominantly" chinese manufacturers pick sets? I feel like with a lot of these sets, shipping costs around the world is often a limiting factor to them being budget & we all know Aliexpress (or similar) have very cheap shipping around the world. For example, the FNG set from Covert Instruments (9.5$) is 31$ after shipping to here

[thecompguy]

Great beginner set comparison Lock Noob! Thank you!