Smithing consists of two things, smelting and forging. Smelting is melting raw ore into bars at a furnace, located in Falador, Lumbridge and Al-Karid. Forging is taking those same bars and hammering them into usable items such as weapons, armor, and even arrow tips. All the experience you get forging and smelting (both of which make a certain amount of xp, so you can do one without the other) goes towards your smithing level, which …