I got it put back together today. I traded a haircut for some tig welding on the wedge, and I dressed it to size. It snugs the barrel up very well. We'll see how it holds up. I had to make the frame pins, and they ended up being much more difficult that I expected. I spent a lot of time dressing them down to size and making a hollow-nosed pin setting punch. Then I tackled the action. This has got to be the absolute roughest action I've ever encountered on a six gun! I spent many hours with stones on the usual "fluff & buff" stuff, and the hand is still dragging hard in its window. But the endshake is gone, the timing is excellent, and I'll test it out on the range before I put any more work into smoothing things up more. Maybe I'll tackle replacing the hand spring with a frame plunger. Anyway, thanks for all the advice. And if I may offer some of my own, don't buy a Uberti open top sight unseen