Doing some digging for last little game texture tweaks and those 3-bit vanilla baseball bats caught my attention. That, and pretty much all melee weapons have gone under the radar for some time both texture and concept-wise. There's some, but the ones available are extremely bare bone and are loaded with dated bugs.
If someone wants to jump on that, I can almost guarantee a "hot" mods position.
Throwing out some ideas...
-Rusty fire axe
-Broken glass bottle
-Rusty screwdriver
-Walking stick