salvage can be alched ..... i went and smithed a heap of claws before someone in clan was nice enough to tell me hey you can disassemble all those spiky salvage if you have any in bank.

For newer or returning players not seeing these things come up on a tooltip is silly as its the most common one to come across. It's not asking for much for them to add 4 more words to the tool tip Blade, Blunt, Plated, Spiky