Those look very nice, JP! Your finishes are coming out excellent!
When BB is back in season, I might need to look you up again for another project, if you've got the time.
Oh, and in regards to freight shipping, I sent a pair of floorstanders, crated and palletized, via ABFreight a while back. If I remember right, it was about $200 door to door from where we're at to upstate New York - top notch delivery crews, great customer service, and they were very helpful guiding me through all the little things that go into shipping freight which I knew nothing about at the time having never done it before.
Yellow was a good bunch of guys in the trucks (in a past life I received/sent a lot of Yellow shipments from a loading dock), but it always seemed to me that they really were set up as a commercial full-trailer type organization, rather than being set up well to do partials and or small/one-time loads. I would be glad to be wrong, but just my $.02.
FedEx freight is do-able for small freight loads, and is a known quantity as far as quality/customer service, but it was a little expensive compared to the regular freight shippers (again, if I remember right, the load I sent out with ABF ended up being about $350 insured via FedEx freight). Up side is that they will take loose boxes more readily without crating/palletizing and or adding a surcharge for doing so.