orifice coater and about 50 to 500 cps when coating form a curtain type slot orifice coater for curtain coating the slurry preferably also includes a small amount of a surfactant 0 05 to 0 5 for all embodiments of the invention disclosed herein wherein the finished product is an overlay sheet the overlay sheet is preferably formed from fibers conventionally used for such purpose and preferably is a bleached kraft pulp the pulp may consist of hardwoods or softwoods or a mixture of hardwoods and softwoods which is normally preferred higher alpha cellulose such as cotton may be added to enhance certain characteristics such as post formability the basis weight of the uncoated overlay sheet may range from about 10 to 40 pounds per 3000 square feet and preferably about 15 to 40 pounds per 3000 square feet it is generally desired that the finished laminate made using an overlay or decor sheet made by the methods of the present invention have abrasion values of between 1 500 to 20 000 cycles nema ld3 13 these desired abrasion values can be achieved by selecting the grit the micro encapsulation resin the base stock and the micro encapsulated grit coating methods and conditions and the saturation resin as is known in the art as best shown in fig1 one preferred method for producing paper 10 a for use in wear resistant laminates in accordance with the present invention involves depositing the micro encapsulated grit on and through the paper at the u201c wet end u201d of the paper machine by means of the primary headbox 12 a in this.