All pickaxes break blocks, then after one use, does the "charging up" animation, and then will not break blocks

When loading up "Buffet" world generation type, with "Surface" subset, and "Modified Wooded Badlands" preset, I used a bonus chest and got a wooden pickaxe and axe. After using the tools once, both of them would stop working and did not break further blocks. I made another pickaxe, ending with the same results. As it was a "Mesa" biome, there was plenty of surface minecart chests with iron, so I made an iron pickaxe, but to no avail; it too would not break blocks after the first use.