Can a wakizashi and a tanto have no sori?

[Tin.Man]

I'm only in the contemplative stages, however if I wanted to make a tanto and wakizashi as accurate as I could, without including the sori would that be horrible?

I'm not going for historically accurate, but I also want the design to be as recognizable as possible. Learning all I can about yokote lines, tsuba shapes, the different tips etc, but being a stock removal maker I have no way to add sori to the blade unless I waste a piece of steel 3x wider than it needs to be. Or water jet.

Thoughts?

 

[S.Alexander]

It wouldn't look right. What kind of steel will you be using? How will you heat treat? You will often get sori depending on the grind geometry and heat treat parameters.

 

[Tin.Man]

S7 and it's an air hardening steel. I don't mess with water hardening stuff not a fan of losing 1-2/5 to the heat treat gods haha

 

[Hesparus]

Mu-sori tanto have no sori, just a straight spine. Uchizori have a negative sori and essentially have a drop point. Uchizori were more common than people tend to realize. See here for historical examples: https://markussesko.com/2015/04/13/kantei-1-sugata-7/
Wakizashi with no sori are quite rare.

Chris

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Very early Chinese and some Japanese wakizashi had no sori, but as said, it is uncommon. tanto do not have to have sori.

The sori is pretty much a part of katana and wakizashi to me.

 

[Park Swan]

You can make a waki with no sori, but you can't not make it look like a mallninja sword IMO