I did not feel like doing it; it's tropical today! Way too hot to **** around with soldering iron and teeny-tiny four-conductor pickup wire. I did a shambolic job, so that I will save you a pictorial. But it works as intended. I say better than expected.
I have heard so much good about \m/s; I was on the lookout for a year and a half for a perfect set of square bobbins. There are plenty of covered sets, occasionally single pickups, very rarely a set. I saw one six months ago; it was gone before I could spell square-bobbins, so I wasted no time scoring this one. As mentioned above, I had yet to learn the Metals was issued as TCI. I don't know which PRS model it was gutted off, but it was probably from current production Floyd. Either way, it came with not a mark on them. It was most likely gutted the day the guitar was bought. Their loss, my gain.
Speaking of the gain. With around 15k (14k45 measured), I was expecting the Bridge position would drive my clean amp even if I look at it funny, but no, Sir, not today. Very usable with no added drive. It has a solid bass foundation but enough highs to make it sweet. The midrange content is very different to the Tremonti Bridge I had here before, shifted more towards upper mids, just like I like it. To a degree, very similar to 85/15, it generates even harmonics equally well, just a notch hotter, although not as hot as Tremonti, which was dull (I'm sorry, Mark, I love your work!!!) in comparison. Now I know what that famous \m/ articulation tastes like!
The neck is darker but still articulative enough; it has that spark of presence when you dig in, which I greatly like. It tracks notes beautifully, even with speedy runs.
I have wired them with coil split independently for Treble and Bass pickup. I have copied the way it's done in 35th Anniversary and the Robben Ford Signature (wiring resembling Ford, but on push pulls, not the mini-toggles). So I have added the 330pf/220pF capacitors, hot to the ground when the pickup is in a split position, the unused coil is isolated, not shut to the ground like it's usually done, and the Neck pickup is flipped 180 degrees, so the active coil is further from the centre and closer to the neck for more usable single-coil-alike tone. The splits are lush, way better than Tremonti & 59/09 I had here before. The middle position, both split OoF-like tone, is to die for. I literally played the Slow Dance in a Burning Room, and I don't even listen to Mayer, lol.
With all seriousness, this set made this guitar; I had a love-hate relationship with it to the point where I put it on Reverb. I'm so glad I gave it another chance with Metals. I couldn't stop playing my Standard for hours. The only break I took was to drag the fan from my bedroom as I was fucking melting.
Metal / \m/ naming is indeed unfortunate. This guitar can do so much more with these pickups. I will risk saying; they are my fave pickups second to 85/15, which I saw as a perfect set for an undecided knob like myself who likes classic rock, British blues as much as modern metal and anything in between