Map Art in Illustrator

Hello everybody, I am trying to map certain symbols into a 3D form, but I am having trouble as to how should I draw the form in order for the symbols to map, what I am trying to accomplish is to map the symbols which are letters into a shape similar to casino rods, here's an aimage to give a better idea, if someone can help telling me what is the shape that I should draw so I can map the symbols on it that will be great, thank you very much.
[IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b200/joebillie/Imagen.jpg[/IMG]

Here it is with letters turned into symbols mapped onto them.

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