Patent ID: 7998589

Claim:
An article produced by a process comprising the steps of: providing a first substrate; applying a first pre-selected amount of a viscous coating that contains a ferromagnetic or paramagnetic component to at least a selected portion of the first substrate and wherein the viscous coating comprises hard particles and a braze material, and the hard particles comprise the ferromagnetic or paramagnetic component of the viscous coating; causing the selected portion of the first substrate to be under the influence of a magnetic field; and transforming the first pre-selected amount of the viscous coating while under the influence of the magnetic field so as to form a magnetically-influenced wear-resistant coating on the first substrate, and wherein the magnetically-influenced wear-resistant coating having a magnetically-influenced content of the hard particles as measured by area, the magnetically-influenced content of the hard particles as measured by area being greater than a magnetically-uninfluenced content of the hard particles as measured by area of a wear-resistant coating formed from transforming a second pre-selected amount of the viscous coating applied to a second substrate wherein the second substrate not being under the influence of a magnetic field, and wherein the first pre-selected amount of the viscous coating being equal to the second pre-selected amount of the viscous coating, and the first substrate being the same as the second substrate.