Then keep improving knives as your skill grows.
After you gain about 30 skill in ws start thinking about making other weapons, be sure to have plenty of handles . It has been noted that improving a weapon head or blade often gives more skill than improving a full weapon.
More tips:
===Weapon heads smithing===
If you want to improve your heads smithing skill, create 10-20 small axe heads and imp the blades to your heads smithing + 5. Once you get this to about 25, there's no point in going further and start attaching them to shafts and imping the true tool. Large and medium maul heads give somewhat better skillgain but use up more lump.
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