Paul, I would do it the way you suggest, that is, rubbing the wedges with a candle and then secure them with a pair of hose-clamps.
However, at this point the wedges will not be of equal thickness, so the hose-clamps will not touch all of them. I therefore suggest that you cut out a number of 50-100mm long ‘stop boxes’ of equal thickness and then clamp these around the mast on top of each wedge.
You may even want to do the same at the lower end of the wedges - in which case I guess basting tape would be helpful...
The sketch below should explain it better than my Stavanger Inglisch...
Good luck,
Arne
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(..see my album, Arne's sketches, Section 7, photo 41...)