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How are Fragrant wood beads made?

25 June 2025 by Kyara Zen

Fragrant wood beads are made in various ways, depending on the material cost, the material hardness and whether there is a need to preserve or recover the scraps, especially when the fragrant wood quality is exceptional. The cheapest bead making methods would generally involve using a drill bit with a shaving blade that cuts half spheres into the wood, doing it both sides, results in a whole bead being spun out. However with fine materials like hon-kyara or sinking grade agarwood, barrels are first cut out of the wood slab, with a thin jigsaw, and with the edges of the barrels trimmed to create spheroids, so that the wood scraps are generally as intact as possible. Finally a slow shaving process is done to turn the spheroid into round beads. See the video in the instagram reel below!

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