Thanks a lot for the suggestions, guys. A tip from someone who's actually used a product is worth an infinite amount of slick ads.
Jim: I already make my own engineering lentiviruses from scratch. I think I'll let a skilled leatherworker do the leatherworking, principle of comparative advantage and all that. (You do make your own DNA from scratch, right? After all, basic genome modification should be in everybody's bag of tricks. I recommend you use a technique where you use four plasmids transfected into 293T cells, then infect your target cells with the filtered 293T supernatant overnight in DEAE and media. Don't pay ridiculous prices for store-bought ORFs that may not even have the right promoter, or come out of your spliceosomes correctly!)
Actually I imagine leatherworking would be fun, but I'm sure my first ten attempts would lack something in the asthetic department. My whole angle here is to trick hoplophobes into going shooting with a non-theatening "cowboy gun", so the holster has to look wholesome.