string of lights

The idea is this: you know those cheapo psuedo fiberoptic lights like you get at ikea that are just a long filament of plastic with a light at one end? What if you had a rope of that kind of light, and cut little nics into it, as if carving a flute? I imagine the effect would be like a string of lights. The cuts might need to rotate around the circumference of the filament, as opposed to all being in one line. If anyone tries this or has tried this, let me know how it goes.