My leveling has been outpacing my salvaging ability. Spent the morning crafting. I'm glad I looked up the best way to do it, as I had forgotten and was making studded to raise metalworking while tailoring.
Apparently you should do leather armor all the way, trinket woodworking and metalworking to 500, then raise your level 1 weaponmaking and armorcrafting to boost the secondaries. I did it a bit to get stuff into the 600's. Pretty cool that you can crank wood and metal by making bronze weapons for copper pieces.