Smithing question

[malroth69]

I am trying to level up my smithing, but I am running into a problem and not sure of the cause and hoping someone could tell me what I am doing wrong. Got my skill to 24 atm sharpening rusty weapons, trying to move onto sheet metal, or reverting my rusty/tarnished weapons into ore. I have been reading on EQ traders on what to do, but it isn't working when I put this stuff into a forge, for sheet metal 2 small bricks or ore(unstacked) and one water flask, but I get the message that these items can't be combined in this container type. Same thing with trying to make the metal bits, and using the small pieces of ore. Am I missing something, do I need a smithing hammer or something else in order for it to work, or should it be working as I am reading it on EQtraders? Any advice from those that have leveled smithing would be greatly appreciated.

As a side note, the recipes say water flask, however some of the guides I have read say flask of water, are these the same things I hope, cause if not I surely can't find any listing of them anywhere from merchants lol