The Engineer ph-56 Tetsuwan are highly versatile scissors from Japan. Suitable for electrical work, gardening, kitchen use, fishing, general office applications & more! Capable of cutting many different tricky materials (such as electrical cable, leather belts, kevIar fibre, rope etc - please refer to the product gallery for the 'max' cutting capacity). The blades have both nano (very fine) serrations for cutting materials like fibre & PET (plastic).and also coarse serrations at the rear which firmly holds thicker materials such as electrical cable & rope during the cutting process.