Now if it's either dangerous or stupid because nothing is better this whole handhold approach (which makes a fair degree of sense in one regard and completely incomplete as an equation in another respect) - then someone better chime in because I'm heading to HD tomorrow (my favorite store anyway, or was) hopefully and I'm gonna' get wired up and I guess nutty.
I invision a bendable copper sheath of some kind. Probably something in the plumbing dept.