Shadow Foam worked great. Clean cutting. I tried the pull apart foam that came with my case but it never lasts very long. Always finding pieces of foam in my gun actions which is very annoying. After I cut the Shadow Foam to the size of the gun case, I just layed my firearms in position and traced around them with a silver sharpy. After I cut the pockets I just used alcohol on a rag to remove the marker. I found that to make a pocket so my pistols were not so deep I just cut a layer from the foam slug and pushed it into the hole. I would not that the tool pack that I purched with the Shadow Foam was very cheaply made. Knife blade would not stay in the handle. Went to Harbor Freight and bought a thin desposable knife and was able to make the radius cuts for a tight fit. This is a great product.