Sorry if I confused you ... yes, your mortise would certainly be less than
1" wide in the leg.

Tradition calls for 1/3 the width of the piece in which the tenon is cut ...
in your example, this would equate to 1/3".

In actual practice these days you generally base it on the size of one of
your mortising chisels.

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"Bay Area Dave" wrote in message

I'm still confused on one thing:

If the stiles are 1" thick, and I don't want the mortises to show, they
would have to be SOME dimension LESS than an inch. I must have used the
wrong terms in my previous post...