I know no one has replied to this in a while, but I just found this post and wanted to share this website to anyone else who stumbles upon this.


http://homepage.ntlworld.com/moonshadow/New_Folder/making_lock_picks.htm


 I have played around with lock picking for quite sometime now, when I first started I was to cheap to buy a set so I looked up how to make them. If you have any old hacksaw blades lying around (or new) and a grinder you could print out these templates and make your own. The metal used in the blades is very strong and makes a nice beginner set. Of course once I knew I liked playing around with locks I bought a set, but these are nice just to get your feet wet (and it seems to have its own satisfaction of making something like this  ).