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[The Dog Delusion]

You'll want to melt down anything you're not planning to actually use - and you want to make sure that you're making something that's got a high melt ratio, so as to lose as little metal as possible as you recycle it over and over. The wiki article on melting has a list of the items with the most efficient melt ratios for each skill:

Weaponsmithing: enormous corkscrews, giant axe blades, menacing spikes
Armorsmithing: leggings
Metal Crafting: goblets (or chains)
blacksmithing: buckets


One thing you'll need to consider is that as your dwarf approaches legendary in any skill, he will make more and more masterpiece items. If you keep melting them all, he'll get pissed and freak out, so consider finding something to DO with his highest quality items so that you can raise your fort's value as well as have a happy blacksmith. Make separate stockpiles for the masterwork items and for items of "meltable" quality so that you don't accidentally melt a bunch of your blacksmith's masterpiece buckets or something. You don't want him tantruming himself into a fatal beating or going suicidal after all that training.

[Hyndis]

Don't melt down the masterwork items.

You're trying to train him up to make masterwork items after all. Items are sorted in the stocks menu by material and also by quality. Just designate all non-masterwork items for melting so the masterwork ones are saved.

You can then use the masterwork items to practice metal working on. Just have your dorf those masterwork buckets or pants.

I like training up weaponsmithing by making bolts, because you can never have enough ammo and it also assists in the harvesting of more goblinite, which can be used to create more metal bars. Figure even a newbie marksdwarf can kill a goblin with less than 25 shots. So you use 1 bar of iron to produce 2-3 bars of iron, depending on how the goblin is equipped. Profit!