[Help] Maya Transfer Skin Weights

victor_fl

Hi, I've been rigging a very simple, very low poly octopus in order to learn the basics of mesh deformation and weight skin painting. I'm having trouble trying to transfer the skin weights from a tentacle to all the other ones, so I don't need to paint each of them. I'm aware of the Copy Skin Weight Tool but it doesn't give me the results I want, it actually does the opposite and messes everything up. Can someone point me in the direction of the light here?