No matter how careful I was in my door glue ups, I was unable to get the stile ends to flush up perfectly with the rails, at the tops and bottoms of the doors. I ended up having to sand even, which with hard maple is a PITA, particularly if the stile end grain is proud of the rail.
On my latest job I took a different approach that solves the problem: I cut the stiles 3/8" longer and cut the rails 3/16 wider. After glueup and sanding, and just prior to applying the outside edge profile, I simply run the doors through the table saw cutting 3/16" from each end, leaving a perfectly flush intersection of stile and rail.
Does anyone else use this method?