You could create a cylinder for the middle pole, then from there use a helix as a guideline and add edges in a spiral around, then extrude the edges outwards, then upwards and refine it from there... Would probably be easier to just use a helix and cut off the top half though :p But with the cylinder you would get the smooth transition form pole to slide
EDIT: Chirone said all that way better than I did :p
Last edited by Acid44; 20-10-2010 at 06:29 AM.