Tool disappearing from backpack?

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#1

I am making an inventory script for a basketball game. The inventory script changes the ball’s look. The different models are stored in another model which I will fix later.

The issue is that right after the change, the tool disappears. Video linked below:

Code

The code is a local script inside of the button itself that changes the ball’s appearance.

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local ball = player.Backpack:WaitForChild("Basketball", math.huge)
local style = ball:WaitForChild("Handle")

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	if ball then
		player.Character.Humanoid:UnequipTools()
		style:Destroy()
		
		local newBall = game.Workspace.Models.FF:Clone()
		newBall.Parent = ball
		newBall.Name = "Handle"
	end
end)
#2

I dont recommend destroying handles as it causes issues for the tool, instead, change the handles transparency to 1 and clone it, set the clones transparency to 0 and change its position to whatever the handles position is, then you can weld them.

#3

Preferably, if you’re not changing the physical brick of the ball, just how it looks, you should store the values in a table and retrieve them whenever you need to. This way, the tool never has to get destroyed:

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local ball = player.Backpack:WaitForChild("Basketball", math.huge)
local style = ball:WaitForChild("Handle")

    script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
    	if ball then
    		local reference = game.Workspace.Models.FF:Clone()
    		style.BrickColor = reference.BrickColor
    		style.Material = reference.Material
... (and so on)
    	end
    end)