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The thing about doing the bolt through is unlike a full tang the handle itself becomes part of the support unit. In other words with a full tang and a side force the tang has little to no support from the handle slabs. While the bolt through is supported like the concrete telephone poles, they would collapse but with the cable under tension the unit holds together stronger than either could separately.
As far as the silver brazing, stay silve 45 or 56 will work. It isn't cheap but it doesn't take very much if your joints are right. The tensile strength is equal to a 7018 but since you haven't reached the steels hardening temperature or melted the high carbon steel there is no chance of hard zones that will break. The reason I prefer to braze is it allows me to use threads much larger than the thickness of the tang. So a 1/4" Bowie can get 5/16 threads, that makes it that much stronger.
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