What fibers/fabrics do you find harder to cut?

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Blubber

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Hi guys!
I imagine you can get through nearly any fabric with a sharp serrated knife and a bit of time, but I'm curious as to what fibers or fabrics you've found harder to cut. I'm a student and my senior design team is trying to find a flexible material/fiber/fabric that a thief would find harder to cut. If you haven't found anything hard to cut, is there a certain type of strap or style of manufacturing that you've found harder to cut?
Thanks,
Blubber
 
We use the green microbial heavy duty scotch brite pads at my restaurant for cleaning. They come in boxes of twenty 6''x9" pads. I cut them in half to conserve and they are terrible for edges. By the third or fourth one i usually have to touch my blade up when i get home. Any more than that and a good resharpening is in order.
 
Fiberglass twine. Near impossible to saw through with a plain edge.
 
Blubber said:
Hi guys!
I imagine you can get through nearly any fabric with a sharp serrated knife and a bit of time, but I'm curious as to what fibers or fabrics you've found harder to cut. I'm a student and my senior design team is trying to find a flexible material/fiber/fabric that a thief would find harder to cut. If you haven't found anything hard to cut, is there a certain type of strap or style of manufacturing that you've found harder to cut?
Thanks,
Blubber
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If you can make whatever you find out in a ripstop as well. A quick google search will explain it better than I can of what it will do.

Inserting pieces of metal wire into the fabric would also dull the knife and make it very annoying as well. I let my nephew use my knife that was just sharpened so it was extremely sharp than I watch him struggle to cut a few pieces of fabric when it should have went through with ease. So I asked for the fabric and my knife and proceeded to cut, what I found out was we were cutting through small strips of wire, it dulled the blade a bit even though it was 4-5 small single strand metal wires. It was quite flexible as if there was no metal in there but it definitely made it harder to cut and I felt the need to resharpen my knife afterwards. Having that incorporated into the build plus what other people are mentioning would make it one annoying thing to cut.
 
jkwithawave-

If my memory serves me correctly, green scotch brite pads have silicon carbide abrasive imbedded in them.

Ric
 
Does chainmail count? lol. there's also these gloves that are woven with steel wire, used for shucking oysters.
 
The nice thing about the SuperFabric that I mentioned above, too, is that it's an applied process to a base fabric. It's a series of tiny plates printed onto the fabric of your choice, so you could print it onto ripstop nylon, kevlar, spectra, etc.
 
What about using chicken wire ? it comes 3-4 feet high, & no blade i know of can cut through it. you can wrap it in shrink wrap or heavy felt basement carpet padding, which is pretty tough stuff...
 
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