Parallel to the improvements in marble technology in the recent years, the research on marble abrasion - polishing subject which is one of the most important phases in marble mining, is studied intensively. Generally, these studies are concentrated on the development of optimum abrasion - polishing heads. The development of optimum abrasion heads are directly related with the correct measurement of surface roughness. The available surface roughness measurement devices measure the roughness profile in 2-D with a narrow sampling length (approximately<3 cm). The ideal measuring system should be in 3-D and should cover the whole marble surface (e.g. 30x30 cm). On the other hand the quality of polished marble surfaces (end product) is determined by human expert observations. It is obvious that polishing grading is changing significantly from expert to an expert decisions. In this research the development of 3-D surface roughness measuring system for the evaluation of the available and developed abrasion - polishing heads performance is achieved with the manufacturing of a measurement system for the quantitative grading of the polished marble surface.