How to wrap tape around a object? So via the use of Curves > Curve spirals > Archimedian I've made the following:


Now I want to wrap the tape around the handle to fit the baseball bat mesh perfectly... problem is I can't seem to figure it out. I tried using Shrinkwrap but I only get the following:



It seems to join with my mess to mess it up. Anyway on how to do this but not manually scaling?
With pivot set to '3D Cursor', assuming the length of your baseball bat is in Z, and with the 'Loop Tools' built-in Add On enabled ...


Select a transverse edge loop near the bottom of your tape winding
ShiftS 'Cursor to Selected'
Select a vertical set of vertices spanning the height you will want your spiral 





ShiftD duplicate that span (in real life,
right-click to leave it where it is, on the surface of your object) 
W > Subdivide the selection. In the tool region, adjust the count to create as many vertices as you will eventually want on your spiral... (total turns * vertices per turn). 





With the vertices in the profile selected, use W > Loop Tools > Space to distribute them evenly along your profile.
O .. switch on Proportional Editing. Set the Falloff Type to 'Linear'... Select the bottom vertex of your profile alone ... hit RZ.  Using the scroll-wheel, adjust the range of your proportional edit to include the top vertex of your profile.


With each wind of your mouse around the 3D cursor, you will introduce a new turn on your spiral, conforming to the surface of the bat.



Instead of doing this interactively, you could assign a Simple Deform > Twist modifier to the profile, which does the exact same thing. Set Axis to Z, and  Angle set to 360 * your number of turns. That way you can go back and adjust it later, if you need to.