I was curious as to if any of you fine folk knew a method of boosting the smithing skill post 1.6 patch. You obviously can't spam Iron daggers anymore, so... Any ideas?

Apart from making jewelry, I spam make Dwarven Bows pretty often. It wont get smithing to 100 but it will get you a decent chunk of the way.

If you want you can downgrade your Skyrim and then once you got 100, update it. All I can think of.

Will crafting higher level gear actually grant more experience than the pre patch iron daggers?

Yes. It's all based on the value of the item. So daggers give you absolutely nothing.

Make jewelry. It helps if you get Transmute so you can get easy gold ore.

yeah using transmute to make jewlry is probably the easiest way, aside from spending a crap load of money for training, which is what did to get to level 80 for glass smithing

Also, one of the few uses for the well rested bonus.

If you delete the patch no save will load up, it will say something along the lines of ''This save is from an old update, please update to current version''

On the other hand all I did was make iron dagers (yes post 1.6) And it took me about 7 hours and a whole lot of gold.

Levelig smithing buy just making iron daggers was removed in the 1.4 or 1.5 patch, The patch that gave us kill moves. personally the best way to level smithing is by using a trainer and then pick pocketing the money back after each gain.

Jewelry has large value and is fairly easy to craft,
Took me about 10 glass bows to get from 99-100.
Iron helmets are pretty good also.
Basically try getting as much value from the items you are crafting as possible, but keep in mind that you want to be able to make alot of them to.

I've done it by simply smithing like mad. I'd make jewelry as often as possible, which has multiple benefits:
1. Smithing gains experience for levelling
2. You can enchant the jewelry, gaining levelling experience and increasing enchanting experience
3. You can transmute iron to silver to gold, gaining alteration experience
4. You make a TON of money selling the enchanted jewelry
5. Your selling activities increase speech experience

If you run out of iron, just use your dwarven metal, orichalcum, moonstone or whatever you have to either smith armor & weapons (which increases smithing experience) and sell them (to increase Speech experience), or use your other metals to enhance armor and weapons that you find in game (more smithing experience.)

One of the joys of the game for me is exploring for ore, using transmute, smithing weapons, armor and jewelry, enchanting it and selling it. Truly, it's funner than going into a crypt and killing draugr.

(Yes, I really am that wierd, I openly admit to it.............)

You simply make the best equipment you can. That's the only reasonable way. If you can make Dwemer, make Dwemer. If you can make Orcish, make Orcish. That simple.

It was not. I just finished leveling smithing just using daggers. Took me less than 2 hours.