Here's another alternative
Been collecting sockets for 30 years and I could never find what I was looking for. Tried the stainless racks and the Sears plastic trays with holes for sockets but didn't find them very satisfactory. The problem was that the sockets I liked to use didn't conform very well to the commercially available racks.
Here's a custom made foam socket organizer - metric on the right, SAE on the left. I measured all my sockets diameters, put them on a spreadsheet and sent the file to FormFitTools. They are all dogs-and-cats: CM, Proto, Husky, Willams, etc. This is what it looks like-
People who wrench for a living look at it and say ' that sure has a lot of wasted space' I suppose I could of stuffed a lot more sockets/tools in there, but the idea was to be able to easily locate them, have to most frequently used in the front of the drawer and be able to tell when one was missing since I have a bad habit of misplacing them in engine bays. Here's the place the organizer came from-
