Toool

Welcome to the Toool website

Toool is the The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers, a growing group of enthusiasts interested in locks, keys and ways of opening locks without keys. On this site you will find information about us getting together to practice our skills, about the conventions and championships we organize and lots and lots of information about our hobby.

This website is in English because most of the information on it is in English and because we found that the majority of our (web) visitors is not from the Netherlands.

News

Since 2015, Toool has started with monthly meetings in Groningen! So people living in the north of the Netherlands now have a place to pick locks with fellow lockpickers in a nice environment. See the gatherings page for more information.

Organisation

Toool was founded in 2002 in Amsterdam. In 2006, a local chapter in Eindhoven was founded and in 2015 one in Groningen. They all have regular meetings (once every other week). Members of Toool are welcome in all three cities. People from abroad are welcome too to become a member. For Germany, see the pages of the Sportfreunde der Sperrtechnik.

The USA has a Toool US that was founded in 2005.

In the UK, a Toool UK was founded in 2014.

In Belgium, a Toool BE was founded in 2015.

All these groups are separate legal entities, but they have strong bonds with Toool NL.

Upcoming gatherings

• Amsterdam:
• Eindhoven:
• Groningen:

You cannot visit them without advance notification. Please see the gatherings-page for more information.

As seen on BBC2

On October 25, 2013, an item in the television series QI was devoted to TOOOL. See the BBC website and the QI website for more information.