Working with a band out of Dallas and several old tunes involving slide applications have come up (Walsh, Floyd, ZZ). Using a small chrome pinky slide. I'm pretty good with control (even on low action axe set-ups), but have to make drastic changes (go to neck pickup and a "excessive" pedal board switch) to nail the tone.

Without dropping a hundi on slides, would I achieve a more accessible sound by using another slide material? (glass, copper, bronze, wood).
Does wood slide? Wait.........forget I asked that.