User blog comment:Blood Reaper/Skyrim Crafting your Own Weapons/@comment-4317122-20110825080523

I could see myself doing a lot of mining in order to create new weapons and armor and then sell those off. I am thinking that there might be a few surprises in store for Smithing as it would seem odd to me to have a whole skill complete with perks(which will hopefully have alot of interesting effects) just to make the same Steel Long sword I stole off a bandit while collecting the ore to make a new Steel Long sword. Whether you can create a Steel Long sword with simply better stats, whole new custom weapons, and/or increase it's utility, they haven't said yet, but it is an exciting idea.