First off, let me say that this Boulder CB-367 Alpine Deluxe gig bag for open back banjos fits my Gold Tone Cripple Creek CC-50 open back banjo perfectly for overall length and width of the pot (11").There is a fair amount of room in the neck area of the bag, and you might want to add some support to your instrument there. I use a roll of bubble packing under and around the neck, which works great. I know others take a big old wool sock and stuff the detachable pads from the shoulder straps in it, and place that under the neck.Material is heavy weight, it has three concentric pockets that can hold a tuner, extra strings, wrench, etc. There is a shallow zipper pocket on the neck. There is also a handy grab loop at the top of the neck convenient for hanging it up, and a grab/hang loop on the back of the bag about halfway up the neck. The carry handle is heavy rubber and it's attached to reinforced webbing sewn to the bag.Zippers are heavy duty, with cord pulls attached to each.Overall this is a very much superior bag to the Gold Tone Heavy Duty gig bag that came with my banjo. If that is Gold Tone's idea of heavy duty, the light duty bag they sell must just be a dust cover. In fact, if you were to purchase the Gold Tone bag, you'd find it is more expensive than this Boulder Alpine bag.The backpack straps are relatively comfortable, and have minimal padding, but sufficient for short walks when your hands are full. Also, there is a sternum strap that goes across your chest which is a big help with stabilizing the banjo on your back.The only design feature I wish this bag had regards the backpack straps. The pads are attached to the bag at their top end (where the back grab loop is) with 1" delrin buckles, and at the bottom with about 1 foot of webbing. This makes adjusting them easy, but if you don't use the padded straps regularly, you might want to remove them. When you remove the padded portion of the straps, it turns out that the 1 foot of webbing at the bottom of the bag isn't quite long enough to clip into the delrin clips at the top. So, those two webbing straps at the bottom of the bag will dangle because there's no convenient way to secure them out of the way. They only needed to make the bottom webbing straps about 3" longer than they are to result in a sweet way to secure the dangling bottom webbing to the to top delrin fittings when the pads are removed. Geez.So I made short 4" long straps with the appropriate delrin fittings to allow the bottom webbing to clip to the top delrin fittings. Problem solved, no dangling webbing when the padded straps are removed.I'm glad I bought this bag. It's great quality, looks really good, is well-padded with good reinforcement of attachment points for loops and handles, and even has reinforcing inside where the headstock tuners could wear out the lining.