Someone that could actually make +3 "One Handed Axe" or +3 "Two Handed War Axe" or +3 "____ Tunic Over Mail" could probably clean up in Strategus!
This is why I've been carrying around 2 one handed axes and 2 plain round shields for like two weeks... up to 15 skill in each. They're decent enough and only cost 31 to produce. If they were +3, they'd be cheap and decent.
Of course, I am too chicken to actually heirloom them since you never know if chadz is going to remodel the economy so that everyone is running around in banded or higher and nobody will want the cheap stuff anymore...