The present invention concerns a method of machining bearing journals, with a first step for rough machining and with a second step for fine machining, wherein in the first step the journal is roughed with a crankshaft milling cutter and in the second step the journal is smoothed with a crankshaft milling cutter. To provide a method as well as a milling cutter and an indexable cutting plate for that milling cutter, which make it possible to machine crankshaft journals more quickly, less expensively and at least with the same quality as in the state of the art, it is proposed according to the invention that the fine machining method exclusively comprises the second step which concludes the dimension-changing machining of the bearing journals.