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What is the best passive jazz drop in control plate?

So I've got this project I'm collecting the parts for-5 string fretless Warmoth Jazz and I'm a passive electronics type of guy.
The Control plate issue is giving me multiple headaches. So far as I can tell, the only drop in plates that offer "vintage" style parts and wiring are VVT oriented, 250k/250k with the orange drop capacitor.
After doing multiple searches, it seems the '61/'62 jazz basses had two stacked knobs and the top jack, and different capacitors.
Since the '61/'62 jazz bass sound is so holy grail why cant I find aftermarket shops offering a drop in control plate with the ORIGINAL vintage config?
The more i research the bigger the headache gets...
 
Since the '61/'62 jazz bass sound is so holy grail why cant I find aftermarket shops offering a drop in control plate with the ORIGINAL vintage config?

Because nobody wants it. There is a reason Fender stopped doing the stacked knob setup a long time ago. When you have two tone controls, either you wire it normally and they interact, (When both volumes are turned up, either tone affects both pickups.) or you add resistors in series with each signal path to isolate the tone controls, and lose output.
 

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