The final piece to this rocket kit project came in today, and I put the first box together!
This whole project is to be used for marketing and bringing in new clients. The rocket kit's genius is that the person assembling it gets emotional value on top of it being a pretty unique business card. It's an eye-catching piece that would look good on anyone's desk and clearly shows what the shop is capable of just being there.
The potential client will get a box, the rocket, a few tools, assembly instructions, and the company business card.
Since there are snipping pliers in the box, it wouldn't let the metal plate sit flat and rocked side to side. After a bit of testing, my boss figured that adding foam or cardboard lifts around the tools would allow everything to fit together nicely! Uline actually had foam used for making custom slots, depending on the purpose. It's basically a sheet of light foam cut into little cubes with only a small point connecting them. This allows you to trace out your tools and remove as many squares as necessary for a clean fit. You see this kind of foam used in hardcover camera cases.
It did find it a little tedious to cut the foam out in the shape of pliers' shape sure it will speed up as I get the process down.