This is a photo of Andy Setyawan, the owner of the second factory we visited the first day. Like other beadmakers, Andy makes a variety of beads-—including reproductions of Indo-Pacific beads. The second photograph shows him demonstrating how the small canes are "cut" into pieces (actually, this is controlled fracturing), using a guillotine-like device. Although we didn't witness it, he described how the beads are placed in an open pot and heated-and-stirred to become rounded. Basically, it's the "a ferraza" method ("in an iron pan"), practiced in India and at Venice until bead hot-tumblers were invented in the 20th century.