Haha imagine my surprise when I hear a shoutout from the big man himself. Aussie, by the way, yes. Though New Zealand is a beautiful enough place that I wouldn’t mind being from there either! Excellent discussion on what's wrong with sparrows as a whole. Just outdated and refuses to innovate without the big players there to do the heavy lifting for them.

I think it's weird that Sparrows used to sell non-knurled bars some 10y ago, but then added knurling to them all. I believe the knurling impacts the rigidity and therefore feexback that you get out of the turning tool, which is a big nono. You basically get half the surface area and effective thickness for a "cool look." Some will say it neither helps nor hinders, but if you go to the peak of highsec, that knurling is the difference between a successful float picking of a gin or a sidepin and dropping the entire stack. It just doesn't work.

I do remember when we discussed turning tools that you mentioned CI, and I was honestly very confused until you justified your point. I think you're entirely right. Manufacturers nowadays are just innovating as much as possible to make the most comfortable or useful things for the average buyer, and despite all the.. less locksport practical and more locksmith or red entry focused stuff, CI is still doing so. They likely will continue doing so with that exciting new thing they're releasing soon. And much as I'm not personally a fan, I can see why so many people are.

Sparrows, outside of the designs made by other people (ssdev, etc) is just running off the coattails of locksport as a whole and their brand which is only known because it's survived for so long for being the only other brand to contest Peterson 15 years ago in the consumer sphere. And that's a damn shame, because for a company with said influence and ability to collaborate, they don't seem to be doing anything worth praising with it.

Saving me a LOT of money with these reviews

The long ones are easier to find when I drop them on the carpet. Also they double as back scratchers.

Best wishes for you and your loved ones. Thanks for the videos.

Sandman, hope you’re feeling better. That tubular wrench is for a “high security” lock. When the tubular lock only turns from the ring inside as far as I know. I think lock noob collaborated with them for it.

Another great review! I was looking at sparrows curved but covert instruments look alot more well done.

Yet another great review.  I have also discovered that all of my Sparrows pry bars have been totally displaced by the CI Complete Turning Set.  It's all that I use now.  Thanks for all of your hard work, Sandman.  It's good to see that you're on Discord, as well!

Very nice! Put out as many as you like a day! I'll watch, I'm stuck at home with nuttin to do myself lol

Hell yeah man, put of a video every day! F it, put out 2 videos a day! Another great video my friend. You cracked me up with the long tension wrench. “You fingers not going to get longer..” lol! Anyway, thanks again for the straight up honesty too bud. I’ll catch you on the next one.

Another spot on review...Keep up the great work! Peace...

I find the longer tension wrenches like that really handy. Now that I've started trying to pick ignition locks a lot of times, you can't get a short tension wrench to turn with your hand on it with the gear shifter, steering wheel and turn signal or windshield wiper levers in the way where your hand needs to be the longer tension wrench handle makes it possible to keep tension on the lock without your hand binding and the way of any of the things I mentioned

Great info! ❤

Thank you for the great video. Amongst all the thorough reviews you have provided the community, I'll likely be investing into a set of Moki picks and turning tools.

Great review. Vai could use his whammy bar flutter technique with one of those long ass tensioners…😂😂😂

Thanks for another helpful video. I'm hoping I'll not be too disappointed with Sparrows' heavier TOK bars, but we'll see. My curiosity got the better of me with the curved ones as well. Experience is the teacher of fools, I hear.

I think the next investment I make in turning tools will involve Multipick. That Elite Tension Set #3 is very inviting.

Nice review Sandman and I concur on all counts. Peterson, CI, Multipick and Lawlock are the big brands I’d recommend for anyone wanting good tok tensioners with great feedback and minimal flex.

I would add southern specialities longhorn set it’s been useful on many occasions and is a nice addition to any build/many existing kits.

Steve Vai and Nicholo Paganini, hell yeah. More of a Paganini fan myself, even though Vai’s play through of Paganini’s 5th caprice in Crossroads was amazing.

Great video and I love your no nonsense approach.
You are lucky those tension rings didn't fall apart during your demonstration. Mine just did that on the first use.
It's also impossible for the two rods/wire to stay parallel and one constantly falls off  during use.  I guess they used the wrong diameter  of wire to make them on mine.
I used mine only on wafer locks for a while, because I had no Y tensioner.  But now I use an other technique and the thing is still in its box.

Hope this video gets out so people will avoid the mistake I made. DO NOT BUY SPARROWS