According to Brendan Byrne, Etsy has closed his boutique synth DIY shop. The gist of it sounds like they are questioning how much of his work was made by him. It's an interesting question. Where do you draw the line? You'll find the full story on
Brendan Byrne's website here (warning for those with NSFW rules: the site's uses the f-word in the title). You can still find Brendan's profile on
Etsy here. Brendan has also been featured a number of times
here on MATRIXSYNTH.
"I’ve managed a shop on Etsy for the past 5 months selling electronic devices and synthesizers. I recently resigned from my job to pursue electronics design and fabrication.
Two days ago, my shop was unexpectedly CLOSED and I received an email stating that there was suspicion that I hadn’t constructed my devices by hand. At first I was a bit flattered and followed their instructions to confirm that I had in fact built them myself. I supplied the following photographs…
Shots of my workshop (soldering iron, electronic component cabinets, work bench)
Photos of the device (outside, inside, and the laser etched logo on the back with my etsy shop html link)
Photo of the raw materials used to construct the device (walnut and basswood)
However, they also requested I supply photos of the build process. I didn’t take photos during construction so I didn’t have any. Then I realized this was a more disconcerting request when I noticed NOWHERE in Etsy’s Terms of Use or Do’s and Dont’s page does it say anything like…"
