Bravura Nashville with Round Trim Dummy Knobset, Grade 2

A dummy knob has no latch and no moving mechanism. The Bravura Nashville dummy knob mounts as a fixed pull, so it's used on closet doors with roller or magnetic catches, on the inactive leaf of a double door, or as the matching counterpart to working hardware elsewhere in the same room. If the door has to latch shut, you need a passage set instead, like the Dexter C2000 passage ball knob or the Corbin Russwin CK4410 passage knob.

No. The Nashville knobset is classified residential, even though the internal mechanics are built to exceed ANSI Grade 2. Use it inside units, on closets and on interior doors. For corridor and common-area openings that see commercial traffic, step up to something like the Schlage A170 Grade 2 heavy duty dummy trim or the BEST 6K single dummy trim.

Not a guaranteed drop-in. Both are dummy knob trims, but the Schlage A170 is a Grade 2 heavy duty commercial dummy in the A Series, while the Nashville is a residential Grade 2 solid brass knob with a round rose. Rose diameter and screw pattern differ by maker, so expect the footprint to land differently on the door face. If you want the commercial equivalent, stay with the A170 or look at the BEST 6K single dummy trim.

Only on the closet. The Nashville dummy has no latch, so it cannot hold a bedroom door shut or provide privacy. Use the dummy on the closet where a catch holds the door, and pick a privacy or passage knob for the bedroom door itself. Cal-Royal's BA40 dummy knob is the other Grade-level dummy in a similar style if you need a second dummy at a different door thickness range.

The Schlage A170 single dummy trim is the nearest match on function and grade: it is a Grade 2 cylindrical non-keyed knob lock in dummy function, the same Grade 2 dummy configuration as the Bravura Nashville with Round Trim. The A170 is A Series trim rated heavy duty and fits doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-7/8 inch, while the Nashville is a solid brass residential-duty knobset. The BEST 6K Series single dummy trim is another Grade 2 dummy knob, described as medium duty in the 6K Series.

The Nashville with Round Trim is a dummy knobset, meaning it has no latch and is used as a counterpart to functioning hardware. For a door that needs to latch shut, look at a passage function knob such as the Dexter C2000 Series Grade 2 passage cylindrical ball knob, non-keyed, for doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch, or the Corbin Russwin CK4410 Grade 2 passage/closet cylindrical lock with Global knob for the same door thickness range.

Because there is no latch or cylinder in a dummy trim, the Nashville knob has nothing to run through a cross bore. It fastens to the door face on its round rose. That makes it a clean fit on a slab that was never prepped, and it also lets you cover up nothing more than you have to on a door that already has hardware removed.

Four finishes: US10B Oil Rubbed Bronze, US19 Black, US26 Polished Chrome, and US15 Satin Nickel. Those are standard US finish codes, so matching against other hardware in the unit is straightforward if you know the code on the existing knobs.

The Nashville dummy is a knobset with round trim, meaning knob and rose. Where you need a knob on both faces of a door, such as a pair of closet doors or an inactive leaf you want to look finished from both sides, plan on two. Emtek sells some of its dummy knobsets as a pair, for example the Arts & Crafts Hammered Egg dummy pair, which is a different way of buying the same result.

No. The Nashville is reversible, so the same set works on a left or right hand door with no parts to swap and nothing to specify on the order.

No. The Bravura Nashville with Round Trim is dummy function - a counterpart to functioning door hardware, used where a latch is not needed, so the knob does not turn a latch. A passage knob such as the Arrow MK01 Grade 2 non-keyed passage cylindrical knob lock or the Pamex FTF Baron Grade 3 passage knob lockset includes a working latch that retracts when the knob is turned. Ordering a dummy where a passage lock was specified leaves the door without a latch.

The Bravura Nashville with Round Trim dummy knobset is a solid brass residential dummy. If you need dummy trim on both faces of a door, the Emtek Arts & Crafts Hammered Egg knobset dummy and the Emtek Classic Brass Crystal Georgetown knob dummy are both supplied as pairs. Single-side dummy alternatives include the Omnia 434/0 egg-shaped single dummy interior lockset in solid brass and the Omnia 458/0 single dummy knob latchset with 2-3/8 inch backset.

The Nashville with Round Trim is dummy function only and has no privacy mechanism. For a bed or bath door, the Dexter C2000 Series Grade 2 privacy cylindrical ball knob is non-keyed for doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch, the Pamex FTF Baron is a Grade 3 privacy knob lockset, and the Cal-Royal BER20 is a Grade 3 privacy knob lock with brass trim.

Dummy knobs like the Nashville with Round Trim carry no cylinder, so keyed openings need a separate lock. Residential-style keyed options include the Kwikset 400P Polo entry knob supplied with a 6AL latch and RCS strike, and the Callan Edgewood Grade 2 entrance knobset. For a heavier commercial entry, the BEST 8K Series is a Grade 1 heavy duty single cylinder entrance knob lock.