Smithing
Equipment - All sorts of bars, gold gauntlets and money.
Lvl 1-99
Method 1 Lvls 1-29: Knight's Sword - Ok I have another trick up my sleeve. The quest "The Knight's Sword" does not require any smithing lvl. It just requires one iron bar, which can be easily bought on the G.E. This quest takes under an hour and you can boost your Smithing lvl very easily from it. I really recommend it.
Method 2 Lvls 1-15: Bronze Bars - You always have the choice of mining copper and tin ore and smithing into bronze bars and such. It's the most common way to get smithing up in the early lvls, although definitely not the fastest. By the time you have 10 this way, you'll have 29 by doing the quest.
Method 2 Lvls 15-29: Iron Bars - If you still didn't want to do The Knight's Sword, mine iron and make bars/knives.
Method 1 Lvls 29-40: Iron - Throughout these lvls, I'd recommend iron. You will make a small profit and it's quite fast. The best place to mine iron is in Yanille, so go there to mine it (for f2p players, I'd recommend the Dwarvern Mines (located on Ice Mountain). When you make your bars into things, if you're after the profit, then go with iron knives, and if you're after exp then...(cut-off)
Method 1 Lvls 40-73: Gold Bars - Gold bars are the best way to go at level 40. They can seem quite expensive, but the fast exp makes up for it. Nearly 3 times faster then iron, smelting gold bars out of gold ore with goldsmith gauntlets will get you mad exp. 56.2 exp per bar I believe. You can also use a superheating + regular smithing combo to get more xp/h. You just start smithing at a furnace and then superheat at the same time. You get 110-120 xp/hr as well as an added 30-50k mage.
XP: 55k/120k xp/hr GP: -340k gp/hr
Method 1 Lvls 68-88: Mithril Platebodies - Mithril platebodies are really fast experience, especially with stealing creation tools. They are expensive, but if you have the cash, they are worth it.
XP: 130-150k xp/hr GP: 2.5-2.9M gp/hr
Method 1 Lvls 88-99: Adamant Platebodies - Now you start with adamant platebodies, they are the same as mithril platebodies just a bit more expensive and faster xp.
XP: 150-180k xp/hr GP: 1.8-2.2M gp/hr
Method 2 Lvls 40-99: Gold Bars [80 mining and goldsmithing gaunts required] - Superheating gold while mining concentrated gold at Irc is extremely good experience. Because you can do both at the same time and neither slows down the other, you can get around 60k mining, smithing, and magic xp per hour at the same time, and it is pretty cheap.
XP: 55-62k xp/hr GP: ~ -20k gp/hr
Speed - This is a pretty fast skill, probably a 7-8 out of 10.
Uses - Making armor is a huge bonus in the beginning lvls. It helps out your beginning careers in RuneScape. Can also be helpful when you have a treasure trail clue that requires an item that does not buy in the G.E. Other than that, I guess mainly it's just a good quest skill to have.
