I say "Yay". One of these days I'm gonna figure out a way to put one on my "already heavily modified" Ironwood. Maybe work it with my leg...

The great thing about the bar is bending down, even while string-bending up, Hendrix style. The Stick, however, needs stability. The more "mushy" the components, the harder to set up and maintain. That's why each "SlideBlock" holding a saddle screw is firmly fastened down onto a rigid bridge plate - ironclad.

Dive-bombing is a striking effect but at the sacrifice of pitch definition and sustain on Stick. Also, the right hand is already busy executing notes and chords.

OK, I could build a knee bar of some kind to act as the third hand, but if it acted at the bridge end, there'd still be instability. At the nut end, well, maybe Captain of the Strings has some more thoughts.

Steel guitar bends selected strings up and down via the pedals, mostly dealing in half and whole steps each way. Hendrix was doing wholesale slacking of all strings, a very different musical effect.

You can get carried away with a particular effect, or advantage, or colorful tuning, and not realize what all you're giving up. One of my first tapper prototypes was a hard rubbery plastic beam. I wanted the dive-bomber effect right there on the board itself. It was an extremely mushy affair.