I was thinking before that you attached the laser to the wood, then put the whole thing in your pocket (which would be useful for keeping it warm in your pocket and in place on the scope). Might try that later (its funny when your ideas come from misunderstanding something else, lol).
I got my binoculars yesterday, and tried them out with my laser pointer. That and a good star chart (was using the skymaps, taki and stellarium) I could kind of straddle the scope, move it with one hand and hold the binoculars with the other. The sky around my house is very light polluted, so binocs are needed to see a lot of stars. It was very easy to star hop using the the laser to point where the binocs are. Then when close by just use finder (got it in the eyepiece half the time straight off).
E.g. I cant see 47 tuc with naked eye, or small binocs, but with the 50s and the laser i got it in the eyepiece in about 10 seconds
(the parellogram I was talking about doesnt have any stars in tucana. I must of been thinking of achernar before).