”I have no-name hard cases, and I put towels in them to keep the guitar from shifting around”

I did that for many years, Leeneia, and I also had a couple of home-made cases (built by my dad who was a wizard with tools) for my solid-body electrics. In my middle-age years I began to be able to afford more expensive guitars which came with fitted cases, and my no-name/home-made cases left me when I sold the guitars that lived in them. Those old cases did the job for me though, and I was glad to have them.

I still use pub bar-towels to lay over the strings and bridges of my ‘expensive’ guitars in their ‘posh’ cases - old habits die hard! ;-)