Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-108.4.17.114-20140923194715/@comment-29461586-20140923201031

There is a way to power-level by smithing. There are two ways:

Jewelry: You can easily make Gold Ore by using the Transmute spell. The latter can be found in a bandit camp north-north-west of the city of Whiterun and a rich iron ore deposit can also be found there.

You can transmute all the iron ore you can collect into gold ore and forge a lot of Gold Rings and Necklaces, which will power-level your smithing.

Dwarven Bows: Dwarven Bows are easy to make, since they only require the Dwarven Smithing perk, 2 Dwarven Metal Ingots and one Iron Ingot. You can find a lot of dwemer scraps in Dwemer ruins and melt them down to get the dwarven ingots needed. The iron ingots can be easily bought in any local blacksmith.