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@soulsax your sax seems to be dented underneath the bowguard. This makes it a lot harder to remove properly. You'd have to unsolder the bowguard, remove the dent, reshape the guard and then resolder the guard. This is a lot more work than I would personally recommend to do on a sax like yours. I'd just keep it as it is. It's just a cosmetic issue.

Unlike the original dent in the OP, the latter is , as Bjorn says, not as easy to fix.

When I was still buying saxophones I always made a point of not touching them with dent under involving the fin or brace (although I bought one Mark VII tenor not long ago and the shop which bought it is still trying to deal with it). Reshaping that fin requires a lot of work and it is best replaced which in a new saxophone will also involve burning the lacquer.
 

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(I do agree if the customer wants the repair of @soulsax 's to 'look like - upon close inspection - nothing had ever happened to it'...removal of bowguard would be required and this would up the cost significantly).

and this is precisely the thing, just pushing out the dent is one thing, another thing is reshaping a fin, even a simple one, to look like nothing has ever happend
 
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