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Make the wedge. Just stick some scrap in the bed and trace around it. Cut and plane to fit.
I set a bevel to the angle the iron makes with the face edge, and put a scrap block next to the stock so I could bore a partial hole for the escapement. Here it is before boring...
Now it's time to make that hole.
Then I pared the escapement until there was no more gap under the bevel of the iron, when the iron was up even with the top of the stock.
So now the spills will not get caught on the edge of the escapement. Add an edge fence, with a hole lined up with the escapement to let the spills out. Add the face fence, which closes the wedge mortice. I used rather brute-force-ugly Robertson screws. You could use some pretty bronze or brass ones.
Drop the iron in, set the wedge, and start fiddling around. You want a nice even shaving, so that you don't progressively bevel the workpiece, and you want it set just heavy enough for a stiff tube to form. Nice straight grain pine works well for spills.
Zip zip zip. The kids should be fascinated by this. OK, well, maybe Galoots will be fascinated, but I will at least try to engage the kids minds a bit...
Darrell LaRue
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