CRAFTING PROPOSAL
To start, I believe crafters should be able to craft gear that is equivalent to that which you can receive from trading in top tier tomes (currently Poetics) and from high end raid content (currently final phase of Coil).

1 - Weekly Crafting Tomes
The concept here is that for every top tier item you make you would obtain tomes like you adventurers currently acquire tomes from raiding and other content.

Similar to adventurer tomes, these tomes would have a cap each week. In other words, you could only receive 450 per week. Each item you craft would probably only generate 3 tomes with maybe some extremely difficult items giving 5 and housing items giving 1. The low tomes per craft helps to offset the time spent in actual crafting so that people can't easily cap tomes within an hour each week. In other words, like raiding, if you want to cap tomes each week you have to plan for at least 10 - 20 hours of content.