a pliable sheet of a hardfacing matrix material the pliable sheet of hardfacing material has a nickel and chromium matrix combined with a first element the first element is selected from a group consisting of spherical sintered tungsten carbide spherical cast tungsten carbide and metallic glass the hardfacing matrix material sheet is placed on a preselected surface of the drill bit the hardfacing matrix material sheet is then fusion bonded to the drill bit application_number US 56014806 A description referring to fig1 bit assembly 11 has a body 13 on a lower end body 13 has a face 15 on its lower end a plurality of blades 17 are formed on and protrude from face 15 with six blades 17 being shown in the drawings blades 17 lead outward from a central portion of face 15 to a gage area at the periphery of body 13 blades 17 are separated from each other defining junk slots 19 between them for the passage of drilling fluid and cuttings each blade 17 contains a row of conventional cutters typically polycrystalline diamond pcd nozzles 23 discharge drilling fluid which flows through junk slots 19 and back up the borehole along with the cuttings while bit assembly 11 is illustrated as a u201c drag bit u201d or steel bodied bit it should be readily apparent to those skilled.