Please LPL, use the right tool!

Apparently, LPL needed another reason to promote his sales in a very down market. But wait, he doesn't make a dimple pick. No problem...he used a short hook to make a square peg fit into a round hole.
In my opinion, it's a sorry excuse for what he calls "improvising". I call it, "You bought a new lock, and you needed a way to show how you can pick it." Pay no attention to my upcoming sale, because sales suck.🙃
Yes, everyone should start inserting hook picks in dimple locks. Hopefully, enough of you will damage your picks, and LPL really needs the sales.😆

[@PocketWomen]

Nice demonstration of dimple picking. LPL doing the demonstration of how to pick a dimple lock with a short hook was showing that with a limited choice of picks in a set that you can adapt and use what you have to achieve an open on a lock that you don't have the dedicated pick for. Encouraging people to use critical thinking when approaching a lock. Some lockpickers cannot think outside the box and need demonstrations like that to enable them to broaden their thinking when it comes to the use of picks from a limited pick set. Totally agree it was an opportunity to promote the sale Covert Instruments is having however the take away message from the demonstration was to new inexperienced pickers about being able to adapt when you come across a lock you don't have the dedicated pick for, cheers

[@laurenarndt464]

@@PocketWomen Everything you wrote is self-evident in LPL's video looking at it from face value.
I think you are giving LPL too much credit for thinking outside the box. Using a hook pick is nothing new, or even a paperclip. But strangely, his video wasn't about selling paperclips. 🤔 This whole video is a script for the sole purpose of selling his tools. For some, it's simply entertainment.
First comes the lock in mail; a lock that's probably new to his personal collection. Then comes plan. He needs to show us what he can do without a real dimple pick, and admits that his technique requires a lot of skill. It's not like he's a pick manufacturer and should want to make picking easier (sarcasm). Plus, his purchase becomes a business write off on his taxes, because it was used in the video. LPL created this "imaginary" situation. I can't imagine a situation of not having a dimple pick in my arsenal.
As I said in my introduction: he's trying to fit a square peg in a round hole to sell his tools, because he simply doesn't produce a dimple pick.
The sales in America are so bad, it may never happen and would only increase the price of the tool.

[@PocketWomen]

​@@laurenarndt464 I know that LPL's videos since starting Covert Instruments involve the promotion of the tools they have for sale, it is self evident that every video of LPL's from that moment on will be about showing how those tools can be used. The video's have become advertising for Covert Instruments.
The point I was making was that included in this video was information that could be useful to those that don't have a critical thinking mind and haven't thought beyond the designated use of a particular pick. Whether an experienced picker or not some peoples brains are not wired to think beyond what is initially presented in front of them. LPL has turned his locksport skills into a commerical business not just a youtube business, this is what many locksporters have done either by becoming a manufacture of tools or a locksmith or security consultant.
The Locksport Community on youube is one of LPL's target customers and the benefit of that would be to be able to get a tax benefit from the locks that are now presented on his channel. It is basically a shop that he is running now on the youtube channel.
It would be no different for an Author that used their youtube channel to showcase locks, tools and locksport techniques, that then appeared in a book. Those items could then be used as an offset to decrease tax.
I have recently purchased a book where the author has a youtube channel and that book contains pictures and information directly from their youtube channel. It was like I had a hardcopy of their youtube channel in my hands. There was nothing included in that book that hadn't been on the youtube channel. It was essential a picture book of the channel. That author can claim all the expenses from doing the channel as a business expense now that the book is part of a business model. Which is fair enough, they have worked hard to develop their channel and the demand for the content to appear in book form was there and a publisher was interested.

[@PocketWomen]

@@laurenarndt464 As far as not carrying a dimple pick in a kit, well I admit I haven't got a dimple pick in my kit as they are not common here and if I was to come across a dimple lock I would then use my diamond pick to pick it

[@laurenarndt464]

@@PocketWomen I would very like to see a video of you doing that. My first impression, it must be ackward.

[@Felivii]

​@@laurenarndt464It's well-known his videos have become advertisements, but for way longer than Covert Instruments have been around, a large chunk of LPL's channel has been about doing things a different way and using what you have. A paperclip, the soda can trick, etc. Thank you for sharing another way to get to the end result. :)

[@Felivii]

Cool video, thank you for sharing!

[@GuardianAngle93]

Never was a fan of his tools. Far more consumable.

[@GuardianAngle93]

The mortise lock hook is garbage in the real world. An employee has his stuff.
It's gimmicky. The wild shapes. Get real.

[@MrBrosnan1007]

Use the right audio settings! Left ear enjoyed this.

[@spinlaunchglide]

And the right camera orientation

[@laurenarndt464]

​@@spinlaunchglideI never will become monetize and know very little about devices and their features. If you're ever in Europe, perhaps you could give me tutorial.

[@theduke7539]

sounds like you're just salty that he can do it with a tool you can't do it with. yeah he sells tools. He also backs up everything he can do with them by showing it.

[@shwk77]

I feel like you somehow misunderstood this incredibly short video. Who cares if the LPL can do it with a tool less qualified for the job? This guy is saying you should use the right tool for the job.

[@mynameisben123]

@@shwk77but sometimes it’s not possible to carry every single tool, and instead you can only carry a limited selection. There is value in showing it can be done with a substitute. This applies to many other things not just lock picking.

[@laurenarndt464]

I could care less how many locks he can open with a hook. He's in the tool manufacturering business. Is he a circus clown showing us what he can do, where we gleefully clap our hands together applauding his every move? Sorry, I know what works better, and America is known for its drive to build a better mouse trap. He could easily incorporate dimple picks in his set. I merely showed one of many compact designs. Cost to sales will most likely prevent LPL from ever incorporating additional tools, especially with sales being so low. Maybe in the future.

[@c90adventures]

​@@laurenarndt464If you could care less, that means you care.