You could always stock up on iron ore and rings of forging and smelt your way to 70. If the prices haven't changed too much, you can double your money (more or less) by doing this. It's quite tedious, though.
Went after 99 WC a couple of years ago. Started at 92, spent 2 weeks at the willows up by barbarian assault, then went and bought myself a nice new cape 8-)
Its no fake - this guy came up to me while I was working on firemaking and tried to trade me. I didn't notice it until after he left and tried to accept it, and this was what I got...
Its a nice alternative to strength boosting gear, but isn't any good for defending. If you plan on training on weak monsters or are going to use prayer, then go get it. But if you're looking to kill anything much stronger than a moss giant, you'd waste too much food, so forget it.