Deltana SCWS12125 Wood Screw, Steel, #12 x 1-1/4"

Steel, with the finish applied over it. Deltana lists both the material and the substrate as steel, so a polished brass or antique brass SCWS12125 is a finished steel screw, not solid brass. That matters two ways: the steel body drives harder without the head camming out the way soft brass does, and on an exterior or wet opening a plated steel screw is not the same corrosion story as solid brass or stainless.

Deltana classes the SCWS12125 as residential hardware. For a home, an apartment turn, or light-duty trim and door accessory mounting it is the right screw. On a commercial opening with a graded lockset, a closer, or a heavy continuous hinge, spec the fastener the hardware manufacturer calls out for that device instead, since those pull loads are what strip a wood screw out of a jamb.

Each. The unit of measure on the SCWS12125 is a single screw, so a hinge that takes eight screws means a quantity of eight. Property managers doing a run of doors should count the fasteners per opening and multiply, rather than assuming a box quantity.

It is a replacement and mounting fastener for door trim and accessories, the finished screw that goes back into a hinge leaf, a strike, a kick plate, a pull, or a piece of door trim where the head shows. Because it is a wood screw it needs wood behind it, a solid or engineered door edge, a wood jamb, or a wood blocking, not a hollow metal frame.

The SCWS12125 is one size, #12 x 1-1/4 inch, in the Deltana Steel Wood Screws series. Deltana runs that series across a range of gauges and lengths in the same finishes, so if 1-1/4 inch is too short to reach solid material behind a jamb, or too long for the part you are mounting, look for the matching finish in the length you need rather than substituting an unfinished hardware-store screw under visible trim.

Yes, in hardwood or anywhere close to an edge. A #12 is a fairly heavy screw body for a 1-1/4 inch length, and driving it dry into oak, maple, or a narrow door stile splits the wood. Pilot the shank and countersink the head so the finish on the head is not chewed by the driver, which is the usual reason a finished screw stops matching the hardware around it.