InterationVisualizer is a great plugin for smp's and other servers! It allows the player to visualize almost every tool. It does require LightAPI Fork but I hope you can make that work. Its quite lightweight and free.
Heres the link: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/interactionvisualizer-visualize-function-blocks-entities-like-crafting-tables-with-animations.77050
This is one of its many features
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