Hello lockpickers, one of my friends bought a Covert Intruments Genesis set recently and I decided to play with it. Turns out I very much enjoyed it and managed to pick the beginner clear lock in 7 seconds after a couple days. So I did some research to find out what to buy for myself to get started on this journey.
So far I'm eyeing Sparrow's The Spirit set but found this reddit thread in the process. So I might go with the hooker set and get a tuxedo case separately.
As for locks to practice with, I'm considering getting all the sparrows clear locks as they seem to have a good variety and seems to be beginner friendly to practice with.
Let me know your suggestions below, I'll be glad to learn from your experiences.
After a second look at them, I was considering getting all the cutaway locks to practice on all the different types of pins. But the number started to add up real fast, which of the locks in particular do you recommend?
I think I'll just stick with the hookers set first, I'll buy more hooks and tension wrenches as I advance further.
I tried joining the discord but it required phone number verification for the server in particular and I wasn't willing to do that. I also joined the Lockpickers matrix chat but it was pretty much dead so I think I'll just communicate on Lemmy.