Update:


While doing some cleaning-up of my flat a couple of days ago, I stopped to move the Gold Strat body from where it was hanging up, to another place, as I casually examined it, I found out that what I had thought was a pretty serious ding in the body turned out to be less-serious than I had thought, so, I'm not going to junk the body after all since I think it is fix-able, the ding doesn't look to be as deep as I thought it was, what's more, the paint seems to have dried hard and can be sanded-back so it's flat, ready for another coat of fresh paint, I'm going to leave it for now because I still have a lot of cleaning-up to do, and, I have a House Inspection due at 2:30pm this afternoon, it is currently 6:37am and I am having my first coffee for the day, I'll let you guys know how it all goes, I'm keeping my computer online all day today though so I can read your comments when I take a break from cleaning my flat.