I can’t animate my home run baseball bat because the tool itself wont animate. I move it in the editor, import it into the script and nothing happens. I’ve tried multiple different setups including motor6D, welds, attachments and much more. And now my final solution is to come to the dev forum.
I’m not an animator but from my experience, I’m pretty sure you need to animate the player swinging it and as long as the tool is in the player’s hands then it should be fine with whatever animation.