Picking The Unpickable Lock By Works By Design

TITLE: Defeated! Picking Works By Design’s Unpickable Lock CHANNEL: Lock Noob DATE: 2026-04-28 ---TRANSCRIPT--- [music] And we got the full open. Yep. We got it. We got it. We got it. We got it. We got it. We got it. We got it. We got it. We got it. Hello again. It’s Lock Noob. And by now you may have seen the excellent videos from the amazingly talented Works by Design and Artro 2000 on this lock, the NPX [clears throat] unpickable lock. This lock was designed and made by Works by Design as his latest and maybe final attempt at making an unpickable lock. His video has already reached over four million views, but if you’ve not had the pleasure of watching it yet, please do. It’s phenomenal. And what’s also amazing is he sent only one of three of these locks to me to try and defeat. So, what makes this lock special? What makes it potentially unpickable? Well, with a normal lock, you insert a key into the keyway, and the key provides two functions. The cuts on the key lift the different length key pins to the correct height, moving the driver pins out of the way, and the bow of the key acts as a handle to allow you to then turn the lock open. The design of the MPX, however, involves a key into which both functions are separated. In what Artichoke 2000 in his video on the lock describes as a traveling key system, the blade of the key is still inserted, but it is then separated from the bow of the key. The bow of the key is then used to rotate some cogs, which in turn rotates the keyblade into the pin stacks, lifting the pins to the correct height and allowing the lock to then open. What this means is is that as the keyway rotates away, any lock picker attempting to pick the lock will find that their access to the keyway and therefore the pins will be closed off to them. This means that standard lockpicking techniques will be virtually impossible as a picker needs to be able to access the pins inside the lock through the keyway. There is also an anti-bump feature on this lock. So any percussive force used inside or outside of the lock is also unlikely to work. So that’s it then. Drop done. The lock is unpickable. Well, not quite. [clears throat] As lockpickers, we have some other techniques we can use. The first technique is something that works by design and myself discussed and something he discussed with others such as rubber band and artichoke 2000 and that is key impressioning. Key impressioning is a technique by which an uncut key or blank is inserted into the keyway. The key is turned then jiggled up and down. Any binding brass key pins will leave a small mark dimple or crater in the usually brass key and that mark can then be filed away. The key is reinserted and the process is repeated over and over until eventually the lock opens. To attempt this attack, I asked Works by Design to include two things that are available for nearly every other lock system. some blank keys and some pin depth and space information. Just to be clear, it would be possible to make my own key blanks and the depth and space information is more of a nice to have, but I’m super grateful for the hours that this has saved me. Now, this MPX is fitted with a plastic key pin somewhere to help block impressioning attacks since of course the plastic won’t mark the brass key heavily, if at all. But I might have an idea about that. There is another technique which seems plausible too. Foil impressioning. This impressioning variant uses a modified key that incorporates some soft metal foil. The key is inserted into the lock as normal, then moved back and forth and back and forth over and over. The binding key pins will push down into the soft metal foil until they reach the correct height. And once all of the key pins are in the correct position, the lock will open. The resulting foil covered key will then have taken on the appearance of the original key. Will either of these techniques work? Well, we’ll have to see in a few minutes. However, the last idea I wanted to mention is that I wanted to try doing a reverse picking technique. Reverse picking is where you overlift all of the pins in all of the pin chambers at the same time and apply a large amount of turning force to the keyway. This should bind all of the key pins at the same time. Releasing the turning force very, very slowly should allow the key pins to drop back down one by one in turn until they leave a gap, what we call the shear line, between the key pins and the drive pins, and the lock will open. My unorthodox thinking on this approach was to create a key blank made out of expanded polyyrene to overlift all of the pins. Turn the lock really hard via the cogs. Bind all of the key pins. Then flood the lock with acetone to melt all of the polyyrene away. Then slowly release the turning force until the lock opens. Unfortunately, the amount of playing the cogs means that I just won’t have the fine control needed to make this technique work, if it would ever work at all. Anyway, introductions out of the way. Let’s get started. So, it’s a beautiful, well-made and wellthought through log. But there is one issue and a rather large elephant in the room that we have to address. And this is something that both Artichoke 2000 and myself raised with Works by Design. And that is that one of these key pins is plastic. That in itself isn’t so much of a problem, but in its locked state, there’s a very, very big problem if we damage that plastic pin in the process of trying to unlock the lock without a key. For reliable operation of the lock, these key pins and drive pins need to be able to spring up and down in their pin chambers by the force of the spring. Through our manipulation of the lock, if we did damage that plastic key pin, we bent it out of shape, we broke it, we fractured it, we added a rough surface in such a way that this pin stack, wherever it is, doesn’t allow those pins to spring up and down in the pin chamber, we could have a permanent lockout of this lock, a lock failure, and that would mean that even the real key may not work in this lock again. How do we get around that? Well, we have to unlock the lock first to make sure that we can remove all of the insides if we ever get into trouble. And the issue with that is that the key has been put in a little case with an anti-tamper seal on here. So, you might be thinking to yourself, why don’t I just take this key out, unlock the lock, make sure that I can disassemble it in an emergency. All good. However, anybody watching will then say, “But if you have information about the key, the way that the key is cut, then you will have been cheating. You will have unlocked this lock with prior knowledge of the key itself.” And I have some terrible news for you. I can actually get information about the key even in this state. And the thing about my channel is that I like to be honest and educational. I know that you know that you know that I know that you know that I know that there are ways to get past anti-tamper seals and if I don’t disclose to everybody up front that I can bypass the antitamper seal or otherwise gain information about this key up front then somebody in the lockpicking locksmith or hacker community will call me out and quite rightly. So what do we do? Well, we have to approach this in an educational and scientific way. I will try to not see anything about this key as much as possible. But first, how can we gain information about this key when it’s all wrapped up so nicely? Well, first, whatever plastic has been used to make this little case, it is not completely opaque to light. And I have a very bright torch. Let’s turn those lights out for a second, and you’ll see what I mean. There we go. And I can gain some pretty good information just by shining the light through the back of this case and seeing what the bitting of the key is. We can also use chemicals to lift up that anti-teamper seal very very easily indeed. So we just flood the area with a little solvent. And after a second, you should be able to just gently start to lift away this anti-temper seal. There we go. These kind of exploits are unfortunate and not in keeping with the content of my channel. But if I don’t show you that I know them, somebody will, as I said earlier, call me out because they are in some ways quite obvious to the hacker community. So, knowing that I know I can access the key, knowing that I can pretend that I didn’t, I hope that I’ve gained some of your trust in that the techniques I’m going to show you are real and legitimate. And I do want to try them for real because I really want to test how good this lock is. So, my plan is to under a cloth, I’ll take this key out. I’ll try to insert it in the lock and unlock the lock so I can take the shackle off. I will then put the key back in here and seal it shut with some tape and sign across it or scribble across it so that we can see that I won’t access that key in the future. Wish me luck. Okay. Right. This is going to be somewhat tricky because I need to first of all try to find uh the key. I’m going to remove the rest of anti-tamper seal which is here. Now I’m going to tip out the key. Okay. So I can feel the bitting and I can take out the little case here as well. And now got to try to find what I think is a smaller end. I think that the um the key itself has a short end which is the front and a long end which is the back. And I think I can feel that. So that shouldn’t be too much of an issue. I just got to try to find it and do my best to work with it the best I can. So now I’ve got to just try to Hold on. Right. Here’s the lock. So the first one is where you screw in. Second one is where I put the key. Okay. I think I think I’ve done it right. So if that’s right, and that’s all I can see. Yeah, that’s all I can see there. Um, and I should be able to then use this handle like that to grab hold of it to remove it if I need to. Yeah. So, you can see that I can remove it. So, that’s correct. So, I’m going to leave that in there. And then, I believe we turn it anticlockwise like this. And then we should, there we go. Be able to release the shackle. Right. Okay. That’s really, really good. And I should be able to just dump out these locking pills. I’m hoping one that side, one that side. And now if it all goes horribly wrong, we can save the lock. Now we just have to do this in reverse, which is this way, I believe. Like that. Then I need to get my thing ready, get my foil ready, get my key in there to grab hold of the blank and start to withdraw it like this. Cover back up best we can. with that tape over out of the way. Sort of glue this to the bench and then try to this as carefully as we can. Now I’ve got the key. I can slide it into the box like that. I got it. I’ve got it. I’ve got it. Now hopefully there we go. I can just seal this up like that. This stuff is so sticky. There we go. Roll it up. This is going to be horrible to get a hold of later on. And then uh write uh lock new. Well, that was awful across the seal. But that should be put some lines across here. So, that’s what it’s going to look like later on when we go look at the key. And is there any other way that I can cheat? Well, sadly, yes. There are still ways I could probably take this all apart and access the pins and uh get some information that way as well. But again, I want you to know that I know that. And again, not in keeping with the channel. I’d like to be as open and honest about what I do know and what I don’t know. I actually genuinely just want to try and open this using the techniques that I know because I think that will be super fun. And uh I think we should start having a go at that. So the first technique I want to try is key impressioning. And for that we need a few things. We need a completely uncut key, something we call a blank. And that will be loaded into the lock. We’ll need a big vice to hold the lock steady. An impressioning file to cut the key with. This was kindly gifted to me by my friend Rubber Band. some thousand grit sandpaper. All I need then is a way to rapidly turn that keyway round multiple times. And I actually hand filed, yes, hand filed with no machining this little bit. And what’s it for? Well, when I was chatting to Artichoke 2000, he suggested maybe using something like a little uh torque controlled power screwdriver. So, that’s what this bit is for. I should be able to uh reverse it and close the lock and then forward and open the lock. That is how I’m going to save my uh my fingers. And if I want a little more torque or some manual control, I can just use this little screwdriver here. And being custom made out of brass, this is going to be a lot kinder to the components of the lock as I’m turning it back and forth over and over again. So limit the marring of this turning piece here. The first thing I like to do is clean up the blank using some 1000 grit sandpaper.

[music] And this nicely prepped surface should make it easier for me to see where we have the binding key pins biting into the surface of the metal. So, I’ve got the lock in a vice and I’ve got the key blank. So, it’s going to push that in all the way. And for the first turn, I’m going to turn this manually. And I think it’s anticlockwise like this. Like that. And then I’m going to just move it back and forth when it’s can’t go any further and I really really don’t want to um put over well don’t just put too much force on this lock because it’s such a nice lock and I imagine I can easily break it no matter what precautions I’ve taken with the tooling. Then we just need to pop this out. There we go. And have a look at the key blank. I have a little uh magnifying lamp here. And I don’t know whether you can tell, but there is a tiny little mark just here on the key. Uh it’s very hard to get it sort of in focus through the uh magnifying glass. But can you see just there? That to me signifies that I should just put a little file strike along there for now. And that’s exactly what we’ll do. There’s actually um markings all the way along the key where the pins have sort of gone on there. The only one which doesn’t have a little mark on it, can you see? Is one two three. Now that is telling because this doesn’t have a little glint. See the little glint there? Little glint there. Little glint there. Little glint there. Little glint there. Whether you can see it or not, I can’t quite tell. But this one here, three, doesn’t have the same kind of um metallic shine like two pieces of metal rubbing against each other. So, for now, I’m going to say that this pin here, which is actually pin uh yeah, that would be pin three, is maybe the plastic pin. So, we’ll deal with that later. For now, I’m just going to put a little strike like this against um that first pin like that. And I’m just going to mark where the other ones are. Just mark. I’m not not actually like cutting very deep in just marking like this, which will help me guide my cuts later on. And hopefully you can see now that I’ve taken a nice swipe off here. And looking down there, I’ve just got a little mark there to show me where the pins are. Now we put it back in the lock and see if we get another mark. We load the key blank in all the way. Make sure it is all the way in cuz it won’t close otherwise. Turn back and then give it another few good turns in like this. undo. And I will use electric screwdriver later, but just for the first few that I want to show you. Then we can have another look. Oh, I don’t know whether you can see, but literally there, right in the center of this mark is another impression. Let’s even get that light for you. Don’t know whether you can see that, but just in there. So, we’re going to take another swipe off that. [snorts] And then I think we just have to keep going. Now, this will probably take me an hour, maybe longer, but I think we just need to go with it and see where I get to. This is not a quick process at all, especially for a lock I’m not familiar with. So, I’ll have to take it incredibly slow to be a bit more entertaining. So, I might do a little bit of sped up footage. Maybe do some cutaways and come back and we’ll see how far we get using this technique. So, we’re still getting a mark just there. I don’t know whether you can see it, but it’s really really prominent right in the center. And it doesn’t appear to be marking anywhere else. Remember three didn’t give us any mark to begin with, but I don’t know if that’s a plastic pin, but uh I would say that that’s a good evidence. I feel I’m getting a small mark here as well now. But this one is still marking up. So, I’ll give that a little swipe or two. And then maybe I’ll give this one a swipe because I feel there’s a little mark there where this was marking before. I can barely see anything in there. It’s going to give it a little polish, but I don’t see any marks on that at all. And I can see a little mark still on pin two. So we’ll give this a little file. Nothing else is happening on the other ones I can see. So we’re just going to keep concentrating on um that two if we see marks on two. So I do have worries about that plastic pin. Because a lot of this lock impressioning sort of depends on the binding order. Now the good news is plastic is deformable. So if it does bind first, it’s possible that I can sort of torque the lock to the point where I’m sort of squishing that plastic pin and I can see the marks of the next binding pin. Uh but that will put strain on the plastic pin and could damage it or crack it or break it. I I I don’t know. So, it’s one of those things where it really is like a just see what happens. Now, you may be asking, how do I know how much to take off? And the answer is I don’t. I’m taking it very slow, taking very small amounts off each time, doing it at a slight angle as well. And this will take ages for me. Um I don’t know how long I’m in already. I’d say over half an hour. And um I’m still going, but this is sort of where we’re at at the moment. So, whatever that means, keep going. I’ve got a heck of a strong mark on four now. Like really strong little dent. Some really nice markings just there. Can you see? Try angle in the light. They’re like little spots, little little knocks. Nothing on two. Little bit of scarring on six. Nothing on one. We’re still picking up marks on one. So that’s a deep pin. Long pin. A long key pin. [snorts] So we just have to keep finding away. So I’m still going. Uh well over an hour in. I think we are now. Uh I’ve just filed another bit off pin one. I can’t see any markings on uh five or three still. So that’s interesting in itself. [music] Okay, so I’ve impressioned and filed. I think we’re well over the 2hour mark now and I’ve got to the point where I can’t see any more markings when I impression. So, let’s let me just show you. And this is one of the most important decisions you’ll make if you try to impression this long, which is give it a good old make sure vice is nice and tight. There we go. Get that pin key out. Look how dirty my hands are. And there isn’t much going on there. So, I think we’re at the point where we have to make a decision. There are two pins, which is 1 2 3 4 three and five, which potentially because they’re not I mean, I did get some marking on here, but say that’s like a super um high cut. You could argue that either of these are probably the plastic pin. Now given that and you can see here I’ve got like a little shiny track on here but no little dimples like you know like this little um well they are little dimples. They’re like little craters minuscule craters. You can see all the way through this. All the way through you literally can’t see anything but a shine on there. So that’s got to be at least to me it’s got to be the plastic pin. Now, what would have happened if that plastic pin was one of the first to bind? Well, I think you just have to use more torque. I was being pretty rough with the lock. I just hope that that’s okay. I don’t know what’s happening to that plastic pin. I hope that it hasn’t deformed or done anything awful. Fingers crossed. And the way we’ll tell is we’ll just file down a little strike, little strike, little strike, and keep turning it. And hopefully we’ll keep filing down until the lock opens or it doesn’t open. If it doesn’t open, it means I’ve damaged a plastic pin or maybe I just need to, you know, give some of these little cuts a little bit more of a a shine. But I’m pretty pleased with the way that that is. I’m not getting any nice marks on any of these anymore. I think that because this one hasn’t got any pin marks at all, and this one did, [snorts] and this one’s got a really nice shiny track on it, it just to me screams out that must be the plastic pin. So, let’s give it a go. So, uh, fortune favors the brave. [music] It can’t be any deeper than that, can it? [sighs] [laughter] So that’s what the key is at the moment. And I’m still not quite getting where I want to. So, I just thought I’d pause, take a deep breath, and show you where where we are with that key. You can see that we’re very deep, medium cut, very deep. So, medium cut, high cut, and then very deep cut, but we’re still not getting an open. And I’m not sure why. Um, I’m really nervous about this. I I Yeah, I just don’t know what to do. Okay, so don’t laugh, but I’ve just had to have a little bit of a break. This was stressing me out a little bit too much, and I just need to collect my thoughts. Um, after all, the lock isn’t going anywhere, and neither is this key. Just to conclude, we have mostly, we believe, impressioned a key. You have a deep cut in position. Um, well, this would be uh cut one, medium cut two, possibly deep cut three, unless we’ve overcut it. Uh, then a medium cut, high cut, and then a very deep cut at the end in pinned position six. We haven’t got an open yet. So, I just thought, okay, what are the possible scenarios? Scenario one, we’ve damaged a plastic pin. It’s deformed. It’s sticking in the pin chamber. We’ll never get an open. Fair enough. We’ll discover that later. Um, it could be we haven’t cut deep enough. Now, it does look really deep compared to all these other deep cuts. It looks very deep. But I remembered that we had these little cards. And looking at this, there is a very deep cut which goes all the way down to where this um little cutout is here. And it looks like we’ve got a little bit of a way to go. So maybe it’s an extra deep cut. So given I don’t have very many options, we’re just going to keep sawing away at this and seeing whether we get an open. And if we get below this point and we still don’t get an open, I will open up the lock and we’ll see if I’ve damaged the pin. Okay, wish me luck. Don’t often get stressed out by locks, but this one is um Oh, [snorts] no way. Yes. That felt really gritty, though. But that that was a turn. That was a turn. That was a turn. That was a turn. I’m going to take a little bit more off cuz that was really gross. And we got some scarring on a couple of these other ones, which means that they just need a little bit of um probably polishing. All right. Are we ready? We got a turn. We got an open. We got an open. But that was gritty. Let’s try this one now. Are you ready for this? So that’s where we were before. And we got the full open. Yep. We got it. We got it. We got it. We got it. We got it. We got it. We got it. We got it. We got it. Finally. So, having a little break works. Yes. Look, we can put the locking pills in. And we should be able to lock the lock back up with the shackle on. And I’ll show you that it is actually opening. If I turn it this way now, they should lock it back up. Are we locked? We’re locked. We’re locked. There’s the key. There’s the key. The impression key. It goes in. We’re locked. We’re locked. We turn. It’s a bit stiff. It’s a bit stiff, but I think we got the open. We got the open, which means now we can gut it and check out the key. What should we do first? Um, we’re going to check out the key. We’re going to check out this key. Do you remember this? That’s awful, isn’t it? Okay. Oh, no. I forgot this nasty tape is just the worst to get off. Um, you know what? I don’t need to do I can just go in with a a knife maybe and see if I can peel it off that way. I mean, you can’t try and light through it, but it is horrible stuff. It’s so sticky. I think we got it. seems stuck to the key. Get off. Okay, here we go. Here we go. So, it was just a deeper cut. It’s just we didn’t damage or didn’t damage enough the Ah. Oh, okay. Right. Again, I know this sounds really dumb, but I didn’t know that it was um uh I guess steel. That would make sense though because it’s a magnet. And um yeah, I I forgot that that was in the um that was in the original video. I just I know I’ve been impressioning this lock so long um seems like hours now that uh I forgot that um in the video, of course, it is a steel key blank. So, how does it look compared to my impression key? If I can get that out. Is that loaded in there still? How do I get it out? There we go. I take those little locking pills out. Put those over here. Right. So, that is the impression key. This is a real key. I’ve said I’ I’d watched um the sort of making of video ages ago and and well, it seems like a go a few days ago now and I’ve forgotten. Of course, of course, it’s a steel. That is so weird. So that is my impression key. Look how different they are because this is just round cuts. There you go. If I align it there, can you see? Maybe not perfect alignment, but it’s good enough, right? It opened the lock. And you can see that as I opened it, there’s some little dimples in here, which means that the um I probably didn’t um file this key blank down enough. And when we turned the lock in, um, it’s pushed the pins down into the soft brass. But that is a success. And I’m now going to open up and see what is actually inside this. Uh, I’m assuming there weren’t any security uh, key pins cuz I don’t know if I with my skills, I would have been able to impression this even if it did take me hours. Um, but yeah, let’s let’s let’s gut it. Let’s cut it. Um, what do I need to gut it? Well, it was bound to happen. I ran out of battery, but I did get the springs out without much of a fuss. So, now we’ve got the uh pins. Let’s dump these out. That came out nicely. That’s a I’ll put these in the right order in a second. Oh, that’s a [laughter] three was a plastic pin. There seems to be a little that a little chunk of plastic. I’ll have to look at the phone in a minute. Hold on. Three. Four. Five. We’ll put all of these in the right way around in a second. And then six. Oh, that’s interesting. There’s a little uh It’s like a little Tpin in there. What’s that? Let’s have a look. Yeah, it’s a little Tpin. I wonder if that was a spool at one point or it was always a Tpin. No, there’s like a little Tpin. All right. So, all standard key pins, including this plastic one, there seems to be. Let’s have So, look at this. Did it survive this plastic pin? Any scarring? What’s this little bit of plastic here? Is that from something? Could be. Let’s have a look. I Yeah, I wonder whether that’s part of the top here. Look, you see that part of the pin is just uh sheared off a bit. H I’m sure that’s the case. So, just here probably when we we might not have cut it quite deep enough, then we turned it that first time and it just sheared off. That’s a good example of why you don’t use plastic pins in a lock. Um, so turn you the right way around. Turn you the right way around. So you’ve got standard spool, standard spool, standard Tpin, uh, standard pin, standard pin, standard pin with a chunk missing. And um I’m glad it sort of half failed, half worked, but it’s almost like I just chipped the tip of that pin off. Can you see? There we go. Now, luckily provided was some spare plastic pins. So, but I want to try a different technique. Now, we know we can pressure it with uh the standard way. I’ve got a fancy way which I need to prepare for. It’ll take me a few hours. So, I’m going to um assem reassemble this lock, go make myself the thing I need, and then come back and we’ll try it. This one is a technique which I do not think is going to work, but my goodness, I just really want to try it. Oh, look at these. These are all shiny. Wow, look at that. Compare the color. Are they the same length? They better be cuz otherwise the key won’t work. Yeah, they appear to be the same. Right, I’m going to swap that one out and take that little chunky bit off. Come here. Put you over here. Put a fresh plastic pin in. Now, this new way of doing something doesn’t matter about the plastic pin. It won’t hurt it as much as the impressioning did. Um, I’m so glad I really got away with that. But there you go. Those are the pins. I’m going to reassemble this now and we’ll come back in well in real time. It’ll be a few hours before I can come back. Uh, and we’ll have a go at the next technique. Okay, I’m back and my next technique is going to be super fun and it’ll either work and I’ll be like so happy or it’ll be a glorious failure. So, what is this mystery technique? Well, if you know your lockpicking techniques, you may know what this is. And this is some foil tape. And I’ve taken one of these blanks and I’ve spent 3 hours, yeah, about 3 hours making this. There you go. And this is basically just a skeletonized key. And it’s been filed down. It’s been thinned. It has been a massive pain in the bits to to make this. So, let me show you um the key, the real key, and then you can see what I’ve chopped out. Just the gaps. What we going to do? Well, we’re going to take a little bit of this foil. We’re going to put that on here like that. Fold it over. Stick it to the other side. Push that into the lock. And then we’re going to uh rock this this back and forth in the keyway until hopefully the spring pressure pushes the pins down just like the key and pressing we did, but one by one it’s going to push into foil until they all get to the right height. And then the lock should open. Stick that down on here like that. Making sure that we get that all aligned. Then fold it over very neatly. Rub that along. And then we’ll get a little blade and we’ll trim this off like that. And give it a little clean. There we go. And this is now prepped as well as I can do it. I think bit risky this technique. I think we’re there. Okay. Well, it goes in. Um, might not get it out very easily, but it’s gone in. Right. Let’s get my vice. Let’s grab that little thing we bob. And which way do we turn it? This way. Okay. So, what I do is I just do this at this point and just hope for the best. Okay. So, that’s been a while and I don’t know truthfully if that’s done anything. So I’m going to try and slide out the um that little sort of cassette if it will come out. Okay. So something was happening. You can see how uh the foil is actually impressioning in which is a good sign. That means that the pins are pushing down into the foil. Uh I’m just trying to remember what the bitting was like. I’ve got my my one here. So, if I aligned that, does it look like it might open still? Honestly, yes. It It looks like I just might need to give it a little bit more time. This actually is Oh, if that works, that would be amazing. But, um All right, now I’ve seen that it looks like it could work. Let’s put it back together and keep going. So sadly I don’t think the foil impressioning is going to work. And the reason is something which I should have thought about before and that’s this little angle here. When the plug turns into the pins, the pins drop down not on top of the foil, but they drop down onto this little ledge here first and then they squish into the foil, which means that any pins which need to be set higher than this, so up here for example, just won’t they’ll actually um be under set if that makes any sense. So just because of this angle, this slope, it actually foils foil impressioning. I don’t know the way around that actually cuz you’d need to somehow get the foil um up onto this sort of ledge here and that would be very tricky cuz you also need the full sort of depth to take the the the bitting. So I don’t know. I I think that it’s maybe possible, but you’d need somebody better at boiling impressioning than me to make that work. I I don’t know a way around it myself. I’d need to think about that for a number of months, I think. So, there we are. I really hope you enjoyed that video. If you did, please consider subscribing for more quality lockpicking content like this. Drop me a like, too. It all helps. I of course have to thank Works by Design for making this lock and for choosing me to send it to. I am genuinely eternally grateful. I also want to thank our trick 2000 for our fruitful discussions as well as the lockpickers united community on discord who many have reached out to me over the last few days with all sorts of ideas. This is an amazing lock and the fact that it can be defeated through impressioning is not a sign that it isn’t a high security mechanism. With a few small modifications like adding torpedo key pins, this lock will easily require skills way beyond mine to open. Anyway, [clears throat] stay safe, happy picking, and I’ll see you all next time.