Every other Monday, our team of blacksmiths and craftsman will be building some of your favorite weapons, and some weapons that you've never seen before. This week, we're using traditional techniques to forge Hattori Hanzō's Katana wielded by Black Mamba in Kill Bill.

Those who speak Toki Pona say linguistic simplicity can enable a more profound form of communication. “It is by metaphor that language grows,” writes the psychologist Julian Jaynes. “The common reply to the question ‘What is it?’ is, when the reply is difficult or the experience unique, ‘Well, it is like —.’” That metaphorical process is at the heart of Toki Pona, the world’s smallest language.