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oof - wanna go Dutch? I'll take weekends and you take weekdays.
The "Secret Sauce" is a secret - hence the name.
Sorry to be a spoilsport, but if it's a secret and you don't intend to tell anyone what it is, why'd you bring it up to begin with?
Do I remember you saying something about if it turns out it worked you'll reveal the secret sauce recipe, otherwise you won't? Maybe I got it backwards...it would make sense that if it made the guitar sound better, you'd want to keep it a secret.
Was it literally a sauce? I read that new research has shown that Stradivari and the other old violin masters bathed their wood in mineral-laden water.
Apparently some of that treatment stems not from trying to improve on the acoustical properties but to protect the wood from worms eating into it.
“The presence of these chemicals all points to collaboration between the violin makers and the local drugstore and druggist at the time. Both Stradivari and Guarneri would have wanted to treat their violins to prevent worms from eating away the wood because worm infestations were very widespread at that time.”
It will be revealed only after this guitar has gone through its playing in process, have some definite evidence that what was done makes a difference or not, and simply when we decide to reveal it.
But one thing for certain is that we got the bugs out of the varnish.
I'm sure I read somewhere that the "secret sauce" is actually the care and time that Shelley puts into the building process. A bit like Colonel Sanders "11 herbs and spices" which I read in a book many years ago that analysed the contents of a great many everyday food items and said that in the case of KFC they could find nothing more than salt and pepper. Not that I'm equating Shelleys work with a KFC bucket of chicken. I'm happy to believe that whatever process she goes through IS her "secret sauce" and, if it's kept secret, that's fine. I'm pretty sure if it IS an actual sauce I doubt if you could apply it on a ready built guitar. Does it come in different flavours ?
I think the special sauce is just thousand island dressing...
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As for the Colonel's 11 herbs, I went down that internet rabbit hole once. Turns out, a recipe for it was found in a family scrapbook by a nephew a few years back. Here's that story:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/ct-kfc-recipe-revealed-20160818-story.html
Also, while he was alive, but after Col. Sanders sold out to the folks that franchised the country with KFCs, he felt their recipe blend deviated too far from his (probably cut it down to just salt & pepper as suggested above to save costs?). He had Marion-Kay blend up his version and he urged franchise owners to use this mix instead, which many apparently.
https://marionkay.com/product/chicken-seasoning-99-x/
But don't take my word for it, I read it on the internet so it must be true!
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So the secret sauce is a KFC bucket mounted inside the guitar as a resonator. Got it.