Yeti

[Doug B]

Just seen this on Instagram

 

[Bristol_Rob]

Sad news. Let's hope someone buys them up.

 

[Matty]

Well nobody bought them up.

 

[Lord Kitchener]

It's really not surprising that nobody took it on. At first world manufacturing costs and a small market it isn't going to make enough money to be self-sustaining. It's a shame, they were good machines for what they were. I do the designs and toolpaths for somebody who makes birch plywood furniture with one of them as a small business/hobby type operation and he gets good results.

 

[meccarroll]

I have read in a post on here that the owner of a YETI did not find his machine as accurate as he needed so has now gone for a standard CNC setup.

The accuracy stated on the YETI site is 0.5mm which is no where near as good as other CNC machines can do and would make building cabinets that line up and are square very difficult.

It was/is a brilliant idea maybe someone will take the idea further in the future.

 

[Lord Kitchener]

If someone is in a position to be able to a) afford and b) accommodate a rigid 8x4 cnc then they should definitely go that way. I would say that in the case of (for instance) kitchen cabinets then .5mm accuracy is fine, especially if it's consistent. More important is squareness and I understand that's ok with the Yeti. I speak as someone who has made hundreds of kitchen cabinets with a steel CNC machine, panel saw and Festool tracksaw.

CNC was way faster, especially as it did the hardware drilling as well, panel saw was pretty quick but the tracksaw (with my own design of MFT capable of taking an 8x4 sheet) was relatively slow (but so much cheaper that the other options and fine for a home woodworker).