Hmm. Have to move to Norway then.
Yeah, it's gonna change the sound loads. It should now go DOIiiiingggg, I hope. Plus.. The B5 Tele kit comes with a whole new bridge - being the plate and a tune-o-matic style bridge which needs serious drilling work, so, yeah, it's gonna change a lot I hope. The bridge I've had on it for the last 12 years is a piece of crap but better than the original which was a real piece of crap.
Here's how it's mounted, though the guy does a poor demo of the "after" sound <<wonders why>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN2MLRbIC5M
Check these out too:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~msengers/htm/gallery.htm
Big view of the one in the Utube filum:
http://www.music123.com/item/expande.../502065jpg.jpg
And get well soon, to you. Wintry here too. In bloody August..