Actually the "chops" is too short by 1/4 inch then...
I think I'll just live with it while I work on a few other "Honeydew" projects and see how much it bugs me. It doesn't seem like it's a problem other than the annoying reminder that although I measured twice and cut once ... I measured the wrong thing! (The instructions that came with it had all sorts of dimensions and I read mistook one dimension for another)
Thanks!
Vince