Damon Walker, a \u201cluthier\u201d or string instrument maker in Durham, North Carolina, talks about his work making and fixing double or \u2018upright\u2019 basses with folklorists Katy Clune and Julia Gartell as part of their Occupational Folklife Project \u201cFixing, Mending, Making New: North Carolina's Repair Professionals.\u201d Mr. Walker \u2013 or \u201cDr. Bass\u201d as he is widely known in the business \u2013 explains how his love of music and woodworking combined with years of formal apprenticeship at an atelier led him to became of the very few African American luthiers in the United States.