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Would you believe this is just a little something I put together?
I wish 😉
19th-Century Tool Box Is Meticulously Designed to Hold 300 Tools
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Modern trends seem to favor custom-cut foam:
http://lumberjocks.com/projects/155538 (documented here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKntxbWe63U)
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0275/9285/products/camera_box_1024x1024.jpg?v=1476037306
http://d2rormqr1qwzpz.cloudfront.net/photos/2015/06/30/77747-kf-rich-drawer-detail.jpg
They claim the custom-cuts in the foam create a silhouette / negative space which makes recognizing where to return the tool easy and fast, which helps maintain organization. The thinking is that you spend the brainpower one time to optimize tool organization, and then the cut-outs maintain it for you, by bringing the tools back to exactly the same location and orientation each time.
You’re probably already aware of the Adam Savage rabbit hole of “first order retrievability”, but if not, it’s something else to think about for your most important tools