Bringing a coal pick hammer back to life

[Frank S]

Recently one of my sisters gave me this old coal pick hammer so I thought it deserved a new handle and a bit of dressing up on the hammer end.
So many of these were used in tandem or 1 guy would hold the pick end of it against a seam of coal while another would hit it with a large sledge hammer.
I ground off the mushroomed part of the head in case I ever want to actually use it I didn't want it shedding shrapnel.

Then I gave it a handle