Bear with me here, since I'm kind of confused, and wondering if this is intentional or a bug:

I just added the first Smithing skill boost when I leveled up most recently. I had a number of Steel, Iron, and a few other ingots in my inventory. At the smithing station in Whiterun I did what I thought was creating a bunch of iron weapons, some jewelry, and some steel weapons. However, after apparently creating them, none of them appeared in my inventory, yet all my ingots were gone.

Also, earlier, when I tried this same thing, with several weapons already in my inventory, after I'd finished the process, those weapons were gone! Yet I saw no mention of them as a necessary component (ie melting down the weapon to create a new one).

I am pretty confused by both of these occurences- no items showing up in my inventory after I thought I'd created them, and my exisiting items dissapearing after I thought I had created new ones.

Thanks for any insights into what might be happening.

You're not accidentally selling items after you make them and then forgetting?

Are you using mods? If so, it could be a mod problem since the game normally doesn't do this... so move this to the Mod Forum.

Otherwise, move it to General Discussion... since it has nothing to do with Hardware/Software. (unless the bug is caused by installing the game incorrectly, which doesn't seem likely)

Are you using any mods that might affect weapons and/or smithing ?

For example, some people with the Immersive Weapons mod installed have had weapons disappear when they used the smelter and melted the weapons into ingots.