These days, Preston Thomas gets the question so often that he’s come up with a stock answer. How, friends and colleagues and relatives and pupils and barroom gawkers want to know, did he get so ...

Locks are designed to keep honest people out. (Dishonest people can always break a window.) But that doesn't mean that honest people can't enjoy picking them. I've been an amateur lock picker for four ...

Lock picking is as old as locks themselves, and is enjoyed as a hobby and practical skill worldwide. While it has been tainted in many people's minds as something only done by criminals, it is in fact ...