Honeycomb metal anchoring structure for the production of an anti-erosion coating on an inner or outer metal wall of a chamber of a fluid catalytic cracking unit, said anchoring structure being formed from a plurality of identical strips connected in pairs so as to form a plurality of cells between two adjacent strips, in which each strip is divided along its length into a plurality of portions, including at least one series of assembly portions extending in a same plane and connected to a series of assembly portions of an adjacent strip by fastening means, each strip having a lower longitudinal edge contained in a single plane and an upper longitudinal edge, the upper longitudinal edge of each strip being formed from a succession of straight sections that are parallel to the lower longitudinal edge, the upper longitudinal edge alternately comprising low sections that are a distance h away from the lower longitudinal edge and high sections that are a distance H, greater than the distance h, away from the lower longitudinal edge, at least one part of the low sections forming the upper edge of at least one part of the assembly portions so that, when two adjacent strips are connected, each assembly portion of a strip comprises an upper longitudinal edge a distance apart from its lower longitudinal edge that is different from the distance separating the upper longitudinal edge from the lower longitudinal edge of the assembly portion of the adjacent strip to which it is connected, over the entire length of the connected assembly portions.