OK, seriously, now.
Are the Gator cases I mentioned actually junk or is that hyperbole? Links for them are here, just in case you want to double check what I'm talking about.
GC-JMASTER - ABS Guitar Case For Fender Jazzmaster
GW-JAG - Jaguar Style Guitar Deluxe Wood Case
The only case I have that is indeed junk is some no-name vintage-looking hardshell with terrible latches and hinges that I got for... I don't even know. LOL It wasn't much.
Other than that, my kid's Strat came with a
Gator molded case, my Wolgang Special came with
whatever Peavey shipped them with, I have an
SKB soft/hardshell that I paid only $65 for in 2015, the
Fender G&G Kurt Cobain Jaguar case, and I have the
G&G case I got for my Strats/Teles.
Jeebus, I paid $191.91 shipped for that G&G BRAND NEW from MF in April of '21! Maybe that's why I just can't deal with case prices right now! LOL
Oh, and I have a bunch of different gig bags (Fender, Gator, another brand that I can't remember right now but I'm not home to look) that just flop all over the place and fall off whatever shelf I put them on.
I tried to keep that all out of the OP because I was trying to avoid cluttering things with unnecessary information. I was just trying to get a comparison between two specific cases, but neither of those cases have been mentioned since the OP.
I think the Fender Classic Series case is a known quantity of being... alright... Nowhere near the G&G but not the worst thing ever.
But I threw it in this thread as a comparison for the Gator as a known quantity.
Remember, I just need something to take the Jazzmasters out of the house occasionally that stays where I put it when I store it. I'm not touring. I'm sadly not even currently occasionally gigging at the moment.
OK, now that this got
way longer and
more complicated than I had intended... Please give me some honest answers.