Rigidly skin a spring with Harry Houghton

While I normally do this sort of thing with a wire deformer, I really like Harry's technique here to get better skin wts onto a spring. I use a single sided surface to wt and then transfer to a volume surface for other objects, so this technique makes a lot of sence. 

(and I'll be using this method from now on) 

Maya: How To Rigidly Skin A Spring from Harry Houghton on Vimeo.