User blog comment:MarkvA/Skyrim's Most Wanted Features and Fixes/@comment-213.89.132.254-20111205174634/@comment-66.37.251.34-20111205184052

The easiest way to max our your smithing skill is making leather helmets and braces. Leather is in abundant supply all over Skyrim, and you can get tons of it simply by killing deer, wolves, bears, and other critters, and then tanning the hides into leather. Or you can buy leather from any blacksmith in Skyrim. I have a set of Daedric armor, and it is nice. ..