Deltana SCWB12125 Wood Screw, Solid Brass, #12 x 1-1/4"

The Deltana SCWB12125 is a #12 x 1-1/4 inch screw, so it buries about an inch of thread into the substrate once it passes through a typical trim plate. That is enough holding for surface-mounted decorative hardware into solid wood or a solid stile. It is not enough for anything that has to reach through a 1-3/4 inch door, and it is not a lock or hinge screw. For hardware that takes load, step up in length rather than relying on this one.

Solid brass, not plated steel. Both the material and the substrate on the SCWB12125 are brass, so the finish sits on brass rather than over a steel core. That matters on exterior doors and coastal jobs where a plated steel screw rusts and streaks the trim it is holding. The trade-off is that brass is softer than steel, so drill a pilot hole and drive it slowly.

Twelve finishes on the SCWB12125: PVD Polished Brass, Polished Brass, Unlacquered Brass, Brushed Brass, Antique Brass, Polished Nickel, Brushed Nickel, Antique Nickel, Polished Chrome, Brushed Chrome, Oil Rubbed Bronze, and Paint Black. That is the full range, so the screw head can be matched to Deltana trim already on the openings instead of showing a bright head against a dark plate.

Priced and sold each. The unit of measure on the SCWB12125 is a single screw, so a job needing four per plate across twenty doors is an order of eighty, not twenty boxes. Count the fasteners on the hardware you are hanging and order the total.

Deltana classes the SCWB12125 as residential door trim hardware. For apartments, condo units, and single-family doors it is the right fastener for mounting decorative brass and bronze trim. For a high-traffic commercial opening, or anywhere the fastener is carrying a closer, a hinge, or an exit device, use the steel machine screws or wood screws that came with that device instead. Brass will gall and shear before steel does.

Unlacquered brass is left bare, so it darkens and patinas with handling and weather. PVD Polished Brass is a physical vapor deposition coating that holds its color and does not tarnish. Both are offered on the SCWB12125. Pick unlacquered when the screw has to age alongside living-finish trim; pick PVD when it needs to still match a bright brass plate in five years.

Yes, and skipping it is how these snap. Brass is soft, and a #12 shank is thick enough to split a stile or twist the head off if it is driven dry into hardwood. Drill a pilot, and if the trim is going into oak or a hardwood door, run a same-size steel screw in first to cut the thread, back it out, then set the brass one. A hand driver beats an impact gun here.

The SCWB12125 is the #12 x 1-1/4 inch size within Deltana's Solid Brass Wood Screws series, which is sold across a range of sizes and the same finish palette. So a job that needs a shorter screw for a thin backplate and a longer one for a thicker mount can be finished in one consistent finish. Match the finish name across the sizes you order.