a scratch is only a scratch... I freaked out when I had not one but 5 scratches on my gibson's pickguard on the frst day... but, you can't even tell that they are there unless you look in just the right lighting... so I put it past me... and I decided that a scratch is a scratch.. and if you do want to take it somewhere to get a scratch fixed, I'd say save that money, put it in a jar, and everytime you get a scratch, live with it and put that money in a jar... eventually you can buy a brand new identical one with no scratches... or better yet, an even better guitar...