I was looking at the wiki regarding the damage values of smithed weapons. Comparing Glass to Daedric. To my surprise it seemed dependant on weapon. Some weapons seem to have a higher base damage in the glass category that daedric. It seems loosely related to edge vs blunt and 1h vs 2 handed although I'm not sure there is any hard and fast rule.
However, if the wiki is correct it actually stands conventional wisdom (always take the heavy path so you can update weapons better) on it's head and it becomes: What weapon type are you going to use?
So, is the wiki correct? (an example would be dadric swords vs glass swords)
-Loudent2