The method of intimately joining a hard magnetic part to a soft magnetic part in the manufacture of an electrical machine comprising polishing the joining surfaces such that the surface roughness hight is about less than or equal to two nanometers and joining the parts by direct bonding.
This is a division of application Ser. No. 08/284,714, filed Aug. 2, 1994, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,483,115, which is a continuation of Ser. No. 08/025,692, filed Mar. 3, 1993, now abandoned.
