I feel your pain, got a nice claw mark across my hand this morning!!
Bull dog clip and a set of welding gaultlets should do the trick!!
Welding gauntlets are definately the way forward. I had to give my cat some eye drops 3 times a day for 2 weeks. Can you imagine how much "fun" that was? Im still recovering now from it and the cat still runs a mile whenever he sees my welding gloves!!!
Just need to perfect the towel wrap trick - although my last cat also perfected the art of shredding said towel