Copper brazing in oven

I successfully brazed a piece of threaded rod on the end of the tang for a bowie knife using my forge (for lack of a proper torch) for a heat source. I cut a couple small pieces of flux coated brazing rod and used copper wire to hold them in place on the tang while I stuck the whole thing in forge. It works, but you don't get any control with the heat. It did melt the copper wire though, so not sure if this would work for copper. It might just melt the whole thing, not sure. Works for brazing steel parts together though.
 
I've seen it done for making shop made brazed carbide toolbits, but that wasn't copper.
May as well give it a try with some scrap? I can't really think of a reason it wouldn't work, although it's not something I have experience with
 
Yes you can. We used to do it both in the oven and in an induction heating ring in a shop I used to work in. The trick, like any soldering or brazing, is for everything to be clean and fluxed prior, then the parts to be joined clamped together over a piece of solder, leaf, or hammered wire to keep the gap as small as possible so that when it goes fluid your clamp doesn't lose all pressure. That was the nice part about things that would fit in the induction ring, you could hold them in a pliers and squeeze together as they wet out.
 
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