They did quite a bit of the engraving early on. Navy Arms sold a bunch of engraved Ubertis. That sure is a beauty. Noticed the file tracks on the arbor, is it… short?
You have "keen" eyes sir !!! But NO !!!! They aren't mine !!!! Somebody beat me to it
!!! I was going to share this later but since you asked, I'll spill the beans . . . the arbor in this revolver was correct length, those marks are from the Factory ( that's who beat me to it !!). AND . . . there is a witness mark in the arbor hole (which is what I always ask folks about) and I totally DIDN'T get a pic of it!!!!! Holy Cow!!! The wedge that was in the revolver wasn't the original and was deformed about as bad as my old Walker wedges got ( you can't make a Navy make a wedge like that !!) anyway, I think the original got used in some other revolver and in an attempt to make this one fireable, they took this "boomerang" of a wedge and jammed it in but apparently didn't get around to shooting it. THAT was the main reason my buddy called me to see if I'd get the wedge out for him and of course I said yes.
So, while I had it, I went through it and with his permission, I did a light tune on it with no added features save for a bolt block. Corrected the timing and profiled the cam / bolt arm intersect ( for longevity), broke some edges and polished a few surfaces. All in all, I was happy that it still had all its original parts and he liked the way it felt. Even the dang screws were all dolled up ! . . . I had be careful not to be THE ONE to mess um up !!! That reminds me, the original wedge screw was missing as well and none I had would fit so it's still missing. I DID however replace that nasty wedge with a much nicer one but it wasn't wide enough either. I made a sliver of a shim to take up the slack and low and behold, a tight wedge, a dedicated repeatable endshake measurement ( .0035" I think).
Soooooo !!!!!! After all that , . . . it just goes to show ya, Uberti DID at least in the beginning, no how to execute a correct build of an open-top platform . . . they just forgot and CAN'T remember!!!
Mike