Uhhh, I like your suggestions. Let me share a concept I created in the past. It shows how to repair the durability of weapons and also how a prestine version of the axe will look like (I was drawing it already, also have a wrench, baseball bat etc) - finding them in rare places sounds like a great idea to me. So players can craft improvised weapons from basic items they find or they are lucky and loot the really cool stuff.
