A method of producing a ball-guided snap cage (16, 30, 32) for ball bearings including the steps of: - providing a semi-finished product having a circular ring-shaped end section or a ring-shaped blank; - providing a cutting tool comprising a continuous blade including a protruding part at a free end of the cutting tool and a shaft recessed in respect to the same; - producing at least one ball recess by means of the cutting tool including an essentially cylindrical spherical cap and at least one snapping edge partially covering the spherical cap, wherein generating the ball recess comprising the steps of: - lowering the rotating cutting tool in the axial direction of the circular ring-shaped end section or the ring-shaped blank by a measure b below the upper edge of the circular ring-shaped end section or the ring-shaped blank, the rotation centre of the cutting tool being displaced by a measure a from a pre-determinable centre point of the spherical cap crosswise to the axial direction of the circular ring-shaped end section or the ring-shaped blank; - driving the rotating cutting tool crosswise to the axial direction of the circular ring-shaped end section or the ring-shaped blank by the measure a in such a manner, that the rotation centre of the cutting tool and the pre-determinable centre point coincide; - further lowering the rotating cutting tool in the axial direction of the circular ring-shaped end section or the ring-shaped blank by a measure c forming the spherical cap. - providing a semi-finished product having a circular ring-shaped end section or a ring-shaped blank; - providing a cutting tool comprising a continuous blade including a protruding part at a free end of the cutting tool and a shaft recessed in respect to the same; - producing at least one ball recess by means of the cutting tool including an essentially cylindrical spherical cap and at least one snapping edge partially covering the spherical cap, wherein generating the ball recess comprising the steps of: - lowering the rotating cutting tool in the axial direction of the circular ring-shaped end section or the ring-shaped blank by a measure b below the upper edge of the circular ring-shaped end section or the ring-shaped blank, the rotation centre of the cutting tool being displaced by a measure a from a pre-determinable centre point of the spherical cap crosswise to the axial direction of the circular ring-shaped end section or the ring-shaped blank; - driving the rotating cutting tool crosswise to the axial direction of the circular ring-shaped end section or the ring-shaped blank by the measure a in such a manner, that the rotation centre of the cutting tool and the pre-determinable centre point coincide; - further lowering the rotating cutting tool in the axial direction of the circular ring-shaped end section or the ring-shaped blank by a measure c forming the spherical cap. - lowering the rotating cutting tool in the axial direction of the circular ring-shaped end section or the ring-shaped blank by a measure b below the upper edge of the circular ring-shaped end section or the ring-shaped blank, the rotation centre of the cutting tool being displaced by a measure a from a pre-determinable centre point of the spherical cap crosswise to the axial direction of the circular ring-shaped end section or the ring-shaped blank; - driving the rotating cutting tool crosswise to the axial direction of the circular ring-shaped end section or the ring-shaped blank by the measure a in such a manner, that the rotation centre of the cutting tool and the pre-determinable centre point coincide; - further lowering the rotating cutting tool in the axial direction of the circular ring-shaped end section or the ring-shaped blank by a measure c forming the spherical cap.