Reverse Engineer - And the adventure begins!

 In the beginning, I thought that this object would be simple enough, maybe proposed some challenges but nothing too crazy. Oh, boy, was I wrong. After trying two, four, seven times to simply design the snipping piece of the object, I was hit with the brutal reality that this object is by far way too complex.

The snips had so many bends and curves and joining edges that it was a mess to measure and create.

This took over 10 tries and 3 different variations to create each curve and join it using the edge surface tool to create every face of the object. I had trouble joining more than 3 curves together at any given time. 

The final version was created by using the edge surface tools but unable to fillet the edges. This killed me. If I had more time to invest in this one object like the engineers who built it did, I would have solved this tricky problem.