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# Heavy Metal Instructions
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/heavy-metal-instructions/
- Published: 2025-06-25T18:33:25.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:48:11.000Z
- Description: This is hands-down the best thing that’s come from having a website, and I can’t adequately express how much it means to me.
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Notebook

Last night I finally got around to checking the mail, which I rarely do because it’s usually filled with bills and sad advertisements. Inside, I found a small box from Prince Edward Island, Canada. [Peter Rukavina](https://ruk.ca/?ref=jamesreeves.co), whose blog I’ve enjoyed for years, had emailed a month ago asking if he could set [my instructions to myself](https://www.jamesreeves.co/instructions/) in metal type and letterpress them. Of course I’d be delighted—I’m thrilled when anyone spends their brief time on this planet reading this station, let alone considers working with it by hand. 

And he did it. And it’s magnificent. The pebbled texture of the paper, the pleasurable ivory hue, the heft of the ink—it’s impossible to capture the sensation of this little booklet in a photograph or words. Which is the whole point.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/85/bb/85bbc222-eb2e-4bcf-8b92-f241768e9260/content/images/2025/06/DSCF7444.jpeg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/85/bb/85bbc222-eb2e-4bcf-8b92-f241768e9260/content/images/2025/06/image0.jpeg)

A snapshot of the metal type from [Peter](https://ruk.ca/?ref=jamesreeves.co).

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/85/bb/85bbc222-eb2e-4bcf-8b92-f241768e9260/content/images/2025/06/IMG_2070.jpeg)

Thank you, Peter.