Method of machining a workpiece, and gear-cutting machine operable to perform the method

A method of machining a first workpiece (A, B, C, D, E, F) having two end surfaces that are interconnected by a peripheral face, the peripheral face comprising a gear profile of a plurality of teeth, each tooth having tooth flank sides, the gear profile having been formed on the first workpiece by a chip-removing machining process, wherein the edge of one of the tooth flank sides at one of the end surfaces of the gear profile is changed by way of a plastic forming operation at a first location (β) into a chamfered edge, wherein material displaced in the plastic forming operation towards the end face of the gear profile gives rise to an end-facing material protrusion on the one end surface, while material displaced towards the one tooth flank side of the gear profile causes a material protrusion on the one flank side, and wherein the resulting material protrusions on the one end surface and on the one flank side are removed by said method,

• characterized in that the first workpiece, while still carrying the end-facing material protrusion, is switched to a second location (γ), where the removal of the material protrusion on the one flank side takes place.