Guitar string snares?

[mcantar18c]

I was restringing my guitar and it occurred to me that with the little bead on the end they might make good material for snares.
Anybody ever tried this?

For those that don't know, you string it up through holes at the bottom of the guitar and tie/tension them at the head. The bottom of the strings have beads on them to keep them from going completely through the holes that look like this: