I love it when a plan comes together

Well, here we are, it's starting to come together.

I'm a long long way from finished, but it was pleasing to fit the neck to the tin for the first time.

The tin was tougher to cut than I thought it would be. I was thinking that a stanley knife would work, but apparently tin is a metal and thusly pervious to all but tin snips and semtex. So, putting aside the semtex for another day, I attacked the pesky tin with tin snips.

To call the edges jaggedy arse would be an understatement.

Check out the handiwork.

I bent in the flaps I cut and they'll be screwed to the neck to hold the tin in place. I'll file down the nasty edge and everything will be hunky dory.