How to make a Corkscrew-like line

Does anyone know of a tutorial on how to create a decent corkscrew-like curly line? I've been wracking my brain trying to find a good way to do it in Illustrator, but haven't been able to do anything clean. It feels like there's probably something obvious I could do that I'm missing. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!
Nick

Rather than just step-repeating half of an ellipse, realize you can stretch a complete coil using the Reshape Tool as shown in these PDFs:
http://www.illustrationetc.com/AIbuds/AIHelixBrush.pdf
http://www.illustrationetc.com/AIbuds/ReshapeSpiral.pdf
http://www.illustrationetc.com/AIbuds/SpringSpineBrush.pdf
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