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This invention is titled "Rapid and Effective Measurement of Surface Depth of Metal Components Using Physical Surface Trimming." A method for determining the effective surface depth of a metal component includes forming a trimmed core surface by blasting or shot peening an exposed surface of the metal component with a blasting medium. The exposed surface is a continuous exposed surface of the surface and the core. The method includes measuring the surface texture, compressive stress, or another suitable feature of the trimmed core surface using a surface metrology sensor, and using the measured features to identify the surface-core boundary, including identifying the location of predetermined differences or gradients within the exposed surface. The method also includes measuring the effective surface depth as the vertical distance between a reference surface of the surface and the surface-core boundary.