If you don't want to raise crafts, and also don't want to try and skill up on stuff 50 levels above you, look into the various etching recipes. That's what I used starting out, etching gear for evoliths. You can do bone harness to 10, padded armor to 20, silk coat to 30, behemoth knife to 40... the items you use can of course differ, these are just examples of items that cap at those levels.