There will be a cardboard box labeled 'Open First'. If you really don't like to open things in their correct order - and who does - just make sure that when you start getting confused about what goes where, and are wondering where all the bolts are to put everything together - that you remember to open this box. It has the assembly instructions and the bolts and a lot of other things that are going to be required to assemble your MXR equipment rack.

These two small boxes contain the screws to bolt things together and the spikes (rack points) for the MXR equipment rack.

This is what we have so far - along with a bunch of packing material safely thrown into the corner somewhere that we will later stuff back into the box for safe-keeping for the day when we want to disassemble the equipment rack.

The manual with the assembly instructions and other helpful information and warnings about how best to clean your equipment rack if you have dust and fingerprints where you live.

Tools that are going to come in handy - believe you me. All three of these hex wrenches do more or less the same thing - but each one makes some particular screw-tightening task, of which you will experience many in the next hour or so, way easier. And if you have your significant other helping you with assembling the rack, well, having multiple wrenches puts off divorce just a little bit longer because you will not fight (as much) over who gets the wrench.

There are two high-precision beams that are required to attach one side of the rack to the other. You will experience just how well these beams are constructed later when you attach them to the sides of the rack.

These are individually wrapped 'cups', attached to the inner surfaces of the sides of the MXR equipment rack, four of which serve to hold up each shelf, i.e. a M3 Isolation Base, in the rack.

We removed and unwrapped a couple of the side-cups for the photo maniac behind the camera, but you can really wait until later - especially if you get bored easily and just want to get on with putting the rack together already. Or maybe you just don't want to sacrifice the floor space required to unwrap lay out sixteen of these puppies.

OK, well, we all get the idea of what they look like by now. On to something that will no doubt be a little more interesting...