Well, the "Ole Silver 51" got here yesterday.
Was delivered with no glitches, and no damage.
To me it is a very nice pistol. The CNC machining seems to have made the Piettas a lot better. The stock fits on the frames real well, and is not real shinny as on Uberti pistols. The metal to metal fit is excellent. The arbor fit is a little tight, as there is not much fore, and aft movement of the cylinder at full cock, definetly needs some adjusting, its too tight. I will wait till I shoot it to adjust it. Putting the BBL on the arbor to check the lenght, the BBL frame matched perfectly with the Cyl frame, with Cyl removed.
I took the gun all apart, and was really surprised that I had to do nothing, to all the parts. I only stoned the inside of the frame a little. There were no burs or chips residing. I did not like the forcing cone. I tried cutting it a little more with my forcing cone tool from Brownells, and make it a little better. That told me this metal is very hard compared to a blued Pietta. My cutting tool, didn't want to cut, like on the blued pistols. I did
manage to make it more to my liking.
So......... all in all, I am happy with my purchase
Dave