fixing up scratchs and dings?

[jacksonsxrule]

Hi, im new to this forum, and to the world of project guitar

for my first project im planning to buy an independent used body, neck and customize etc

the black body i have has scratches and dings in it

is there some kind of process i can use to paint and then smoothen out these scratches?

thanks for anything

[Brian]

Any chips in the paint or are they just the normal players wear and scratches?

The dings you might be able to stem out with a common household iron if there not to deep.

[jacksonsxrule]

some of the dings have scraped some paint off around the edges

and how would i use an iron to smoothen it out?

thanks alot.

[Newc of the JCF]

You can't use an iron to smooth out missing paint - that takes sandpaper. You can use an iron to make small dents flatten out, but if you got visble paint missing or can see wood, you need filler and paper.

Newc