Fastest way for leveling up smithing?

[Hanged_Ash2]

I love armors,but it takes too long(for me)to level up smithing.Any ideas,I heard of Iron daggers....

[Brandybuck]

Other thread on this, but anyway the fixed they daggers exploit so it's not as free and easy as it used to be.

Anything you craft gives you a base amount of XP. For daggers that means you get more XP than what you would otherwise get. But since that base is low, it only makes sense for the lower skill levels. For higher levels do this:

1) Always collect the hides of creatures you kill, bring them back to town, and craft up a bunch of bracers or leather armors. You don't get a lot of XP, but it adds up over the course of the game. If you wait until you're level 75+ to level up smithing you'll be in for a hell of a grind.

2) XP is based on the value of the item created. Jewelry thus has a huge bang for the effort. Don't sell those gems! Head to Kolskegger Mine and get that gold. Get all the silver. Get the Transmute spell. Then go make the most expensive jewelry you can.

3) If you perk up the heavy armor side of the tree, Dwemer gear can get you a lot of XP quick. I usually go for Dwarven Bows. Head into Nchuan-Zel or other Dwemer ruins and collect all the stuff you can smelt down into ingots.

[voehringer_nitron]

The iron dagger thing got patched. You'll probably want to start with jewelry, and once you hit 30 tke the steel smithing and dwarven smithing perks. North of Whiterun is a bandit hideout called Halted Stream Camp. Inside are a lot of iron veins and a spell tome of Transmute, which can turn iron ore into silver and silver ore into gold, which will give you a good start on making rings and necklaces.

Dwarven bows need 2 dwarven ingots and 1 iron ingot, both of which are plentiful. You can get dwarven ingots at Dwarven ruins, and by smelting dwemer scrap.

If you have any fortify smithing gear or potions, use them to improve your gear for more xp Having the appropriate perk increases how much you can improve it and thus give more xp.

[cfs111]

The amount of experience gained is determined by the value of the item crafted.

Geek Alert:
ΔXP = 3 × item value0.65 + 25. An iron dagger (10 gold) yields 38.4 XP per ore chunk, whereas 2 gold rings (150 gold total) yield 51.5 XP per ore chunk—34% more efficient Smithing XP gain, along with Alteration XP from the transmuting.
From http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Smithing

[Eat Mor Sandvich]

As others have said jewelry is the way to go. But a simple mod I would suggest is Reverse Crafting, which allows you to smelt weapons back into ingots. It will help alot with smithing as you can smith an item and then smelt it back into ingots and make another one. You still have to make your own leather and straps though.

[Moo-Viper X]

I picked up a mod that makes resource nodes not run out of ore, so you can find a Iron ore node and mine it for as long as you want. Or you can just do the console command "player.setav carryweight 3000" then run around gathering up all the scrap metal from Dwemer ruins and smelting it onto ingots.

[Carl!!!!]

I like the Ars Metallica mod by Arthmoor (guy who does the unofficial patches on nexus). It lets you break down weapons and armor into ingots and gives you exp for tanning hides and smelting stuff. Not much exp, but it adds up.

[Fabea]

I increased my level quite fast making jewelery lol
Not kidding either and no mods to help me.