It means someone who works in metal as an artist. A stone mason works in stone.
Smithing.
You take a hammer and a few metal bars - depending on the type of kiteshield you want to make, for example, steel bars or mithril bars - to an anvil, use a metal bar on the anvil, and select the "kiteshield" option. You need a certain Smithing level for each type of kiteshield, and - as with most smithing activity - you usually lose money doing this. Smithing items should be used to train Smithing quickly, not to make money. If you want to actually make money from Smithing, make the metal bars themselves. That gives you less experience per hour, but with most metal bars, you earn money instead of losing it.
Vulcan was the roman name for Hephaestus, the god of metal and smithing
Metal working can refer to a number of specialties relating to this material. Examples of which include metal smithing which is the custom fabrication of the material into certain shapes and tooling. Metal work also included foundries which purify and cast liquid metal.
The Smithing Quest
You can improve weapons and armour at the workbench or grindstone, if you have the appropriate items, usually metal ingots. However normally you can only do it to unenchanted items. If the item has an enchantment, then you can only do the above improvements if you take the Arcane Smithing perk.
You can get level 80 in smithing by training the skill. Some good ways to train the skill are: Making gold bars with gold smith gauntlets (you can get them from the family crest quest. Making bars in a clan citadel making metal arrowheads Making burial armor in the artisans workshop These are a few good ways to get smithing exp. to level up to 80.
Gold smithing and silver smithing were his best profession
37224xp is required for 40 smithing
I think that's only The Knight's Sword - I had smithing 9 and after this quest I have smithing 30 now. Unbelievable...:-D
Not Officially, but if you browse the Forums, there may be a player produced Smithing Guild.
Hephaestus, the greek god is the God of Volcanoes as well as fire, smithing, craftsmen, technology and metal. His roman counterpart is Vulcan.