Hate crafting "gameplay".
Crafting should be done as a story/world element not in inventory. Like in BG2. Go to a crafter/weaponsmith to upgrade stuff for example. Works so much better within the game world.

It just reminded me of the bowl of goat's milk that old Winthrop used to put outside his door every evening for the dust demons. He said the dust demons could never resist goat's milk, and that they would always drink themselves into a stupor and then be too tired to enter his room..