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Method to hone curved and shaped profiles which belong to furniture elements, which are advantageously of furniture of an antique style, such as surfaces of tables, mouldings of furniture or pictures, panels, doors of kitchen cupboards, seat elements, etc., the profile to be honed of which includes at least one shaping with projections (35) and valleys (34) positioned close together, the method including a step of continuous identification and reading of each position of the profile of the specific piece (11) to be honed by means of a profile-reader assembly (17), a step for storage of the data relating to that profile/position, and a step of transfer of such data to an operating unit (18) equipped with a relative operating element (32) that performs the honing with a resulting governing of the position of that operating unit (18) in relation to the piece (11) to be honed, this step of transfer of the data taking place with a delay after the step of identification and reading, this delay being a function of the circumferential position of the operating unit (18) in relation to the profile-reader assembly (17) and being a function of the relative speed of feed of the piece (11) to be honed in relation to operating element (32), the method including also steps of automatic compensation of the wear of the operating element (32) and steps of compensation of the intensity of the honing action of the operating unit (18), these compensation steps depending on the geometric and structural characteristics of the profile of the piece (11) to be honed, on the characteristics of the operating element (32) and on the type of processing performed. Honing machine which performs the above method.

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