Wearable lockpicks

Lockpick maker Ray Connors sells beautiful hand-turned little numbers and offers this tip for storing them with a safety pin, turning them into an esoteric (and literal) badge of honor.

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People just donâ€™t see what theyâ€™re not looking for. And wearing something as jewelry is a great way to take advantage of that. Ever gone barhopping wearing an earring made from a Randyâ€™s Wired Paper? In our misspent youth, that was the very definition of preparedness on a Saturday night.
Anonymous

“Jill, here’s a lockpick. It might come in handy if you, the master of unlocking, take it with you.”
- IWood
  
  I hated that so much.
holtt

Having played a lot of Fallout 3, I just keep a couple of bobby pins in my hair at all times. Once while walking down the sidewalk I saw one laying there, and I froze for a second – almost pounced on it.
Anonymous

The Bogota profile is almost magic, maybe the best rake profile out there. With practice and the right lock it’s almost as fast as using a key.
Rakes are for scrubbing over and manipulating more than one pin at a time, vs. the slightly more romantic method of picking one pin at a time.
dragonbait1

For your consideration…

“Toolry” a portmanteau of Tool and Jewelry. It should be considered gauche to wear toolry that one doesn’t actually use.

Imagine a world where makers proudly wear tools in plain sight. Not just lockpicks, but anything you might use.

I carry my multitool openly on my belt, but something more ornate would be nice for dressier occasions.

Check your local laws for legality.

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a_user

Duno I’m getting an “if everyone’s armd there would be no gun crime” vibe from this,