cspear, that's an awesome idea! 
I'm going to float it by my biz partner, who knows someone that is experienced in building gadgetry prototypes. That gizmo would save tons of time, energy...  
The "wooden" model could be made more anatomically correct to guide the user's orientation, and boom
...what would you all pay for such a device?  

Okay, now what would you pay if it had all the joints (hands feet fingers toes, etc)?