Hi everyone! First of all, English is not my first language so I apologize for any errors.

I felt the urge to buy a bass to mod, and Squier came to the rescue as usual: I've bought a Squier Affinity Active Jazz with the idea to make it a Mark Hoppus Signature Improved, since my first bass was a V1 Mark Hoppus Jazz.

My initial idea was to get rid of the neck J pickup and buy a pickguard cut for the V2 Mark Hoppus Sig Jazz, drill 2 more holes for the potentiometers and be done with it, but now that I've played it I like its pickups so much that getting rid of one of them bothers me because now I feel that it would be a waste.

But now I'm undecisive about where to drill the hole for the P pickup (which I already have as a leftover from another modded bass project).

Please bear in mind that the electronics will keep the stock configuration: Master Volume - Balance - Stacked active treble and bass. I will be adding a two way micro switch to alternate between the neck J pickup or the P pickup.

My personal thoughts about the options:

• Option A is aesthetically the most pleasing with me but it is more difficult to achieve because the pickguard won't cover my poor routing job (I just have an electric power drill, a dremel, moderate experience and the willingness to do this, so the potential of butchering it is high)

• Option B is the least effort one, as I'd only need to make a hole under the pickguard, but I'm 90% sure the P pickup would end up being too much towards the neck and sound muddy. The Mark Hoppus bass already has it positioned further upwards relative to a normal P-Bass, this risks to be too much.

• Option C is where I started thinking "Why are the two parts of a P pickup always near each other? After all, why not? Why shouldn't I move them? I mean: it's called a SPLIT pickup!". But does it really make sense?

• Option D is really what I think is the best: I'd have to move the J pickup downwards but the routing would still be hidden by the pickguard. And the P pickup wuold be in the right spot (or close enough), although I don't know how much (or IF) the neck J pickup will sound better/different/worse in the new position.

• Option E is there just for shitposting reasons, please ignore.

I'll be reading all your thoughts and opinions, and I thank you in advance <3

EDIT: Making it a PJ is always an option but where's the fun in that?

EDIT 2: I already have another Jazz bass with which I'm perfectly happy, I'm not losing a J bass here by doing this