100% Veteran-Owned
28 years of using tools; knowing exactly where they should go.
How a part gets made
Measure the real tool
Calipers on the actual socket, not a spec sheet. Brand tolerances differ more than you'd think.
Print and run it
A test print lives in a working drawer for a week. Slides, rattles or cracks send it back to the model.
Label it properly
Sizes printed into the part in SAE and metric. No stickers, nothing to peel off in a solvent puddle.
Print it when you order
Nothing sits in a warehouse. Your color goes on the plate the day the order lands.
I'm Micah. I've spent my career as an aircraft mechanic (maintenance, modification and modernization), where a tool left in the wrong place is a genuinely serious problem. Twenty-eight years of that teaches you exactly where everything belongs.
Off the clock I'm in my own shop, on motorcycles and rebuilding old trucks. Same habit, different bay: if a socket isn't where it should be, the job stops.
EmptyPocketsDesigns started because the organizers you can buy are built by people who have never had to find a 10mm deep at 4:50 on a Friday. They're close enough. Close enough rattles, close enough doesn't label the sizes, close enough leaves you guessing whether a socket is missing or just buried.
So every model here starts the same way: the real tool on my bench, a set of calipers, and a test print I actually run in a drawer for a week before it goes on the site. If it slides, I change the model. If it cracks, I thicken it. Nothing gets listed until I'd put it in my own box.
It's still just me and the printers. That's a feature: you're messaging the guy who designed the part, and if your set isn't supported yet, I can have a model cut for it by the weekend.
If a part doesn't fit the set it's listed for, it gets replaced or refunded. No restocking fee, no argument.