If you learn Blacksmithing, you will learn a methodology to create fine steel. Something like: Put steel ingot into furnace. Wait until hot. Remove to anvil an

If you learn Blacksmithing, you will learn a methodology to create fine steel. Something like: Put steel ingot into furnace. Wait until hot. Remove to anvil and hit 50 times. Put back in furnace until hot. Remove to anvil and hit 50 more times. Repeat until steel forms a blade. Then quench. This methodology is fine for producing a basic blade blank. But clearly it's not enough to simply give someone a method to make a blade. They have to actually do the job well, which they can only learn by doing. The method describes the process, but the method is not what produces the blade. If the blade turns out crap, the blacksmith is at fault, not the method.