Mine is a 1960 era Vega SS-5 Folklore longneck - the "cheap "version of the Pete Seeger model at the time - with a sunburst neck finish.   Bought it at Christmas 1960 in Cambridge, Mass. with my accumulated summer earnings for $150. It was the first instrument I ever bought new - I was inspired to take up banjo as a devotee of Pete and the Kingston Trio's Dave Guard, so I figured I had to go for the long neck. It's still in very good condition - a few new brackets and a replaced fifth string tuner button is about all I've ever done to it.   The neck is still true (I think it the finger board is Brazilian Rosewood) and the head is still the original (plastic of some kind).   I don't play it much any more but when I do it still plays like a dream and is incredibly loud. It's just a little hard to balance weight wise. These days I have trouble getting long strings for it in the local shops - last time I could only find short strings and the windings on the wound strings just barely made it over the nut.   I also had trouble getting a new case for it as the original cardboard crumbled - and ended up getting a "Bass Banjo Case" from Gold Tone via the internet, that fits somewhat. That being said, some times I use it as a "bass" banjo in A - playing uncapoed with "C" tuning/chording while the regular banjo players are in G tuning capoed up 2.