Deltana SCWS1275 Wood Screw, Steel, #12 x 3/4"

The SCWS1275 is a #12 diameter wood screw with a 3/4 inch length. The short length makes it a mounting screw for surface hardware into a door or jamb, not a screw that penetrates deep into framing. Sold each, so count the screws your hardware actually needs.

Nine finishes: oil rubbed bronze, brushed nickel, antique nickel, paint black, polished chrome, brushed chrome, polished brass, antique brass, and prime coat white. That range exists so the screw head disappears into the hardware you are mounting, pick the finish that matches the hinge, stop, or trim rather than the door. Prime coat white is the one to take if the screw head is getting painted with the trim.

No, not for hanging a door. A 3/4 inch #12 screw only bites into the jamb face or the door stile skin, it never reaches the stud behind the jamb, so a hinge carrying door weight will pull out. Use the SCWS1275 for surface hardware that carries little or no load, door stops, coat hooks, kick plates, escutcheons and trim. Hinge leaves need a longer screw running through the jamb into framing.

Steel, with a finish applied over it. Both the material and the substrate are steel, so a polished brass or antique brass SCWS1275 is a plated steel screw rather than solid brass. That matters two ways: it drives harder without the head camming out or snapping the way soft brass can, and in a damp or exterior opening a plated steel screw will not hold up like solid brass or stainless.

Deltana lists this screw as residential. For apartment interiors, single family, and light trim work it is the right class of fastener. On a commercial opening, particularly anything fire rated where hinge and closer fasteners are part of the listing, use the fastener specified by the hardware manufacturer instead.

In hardwood or in any narrow stile, yes. A #12 is a fairly heavy gauge screw and driving it dry into oak, maple, or close to the edge of a rail will split the wood. A pilot hole sized to the screw's root diameter solves it. In soft pine or MDF trim you can usually drive it straight, though a pilot still keeps the finished head sitting flat.

The SCWS1275 is sold individually, one screw per unit, so quantity is on you to total up. Work out screws per opening, multiply by door count, and add a spares allowance. Keep the whole order in one finish so the heads match across every opening you touch.

The SCWS1275 is one size point in Deltana's Steel Wood Screws series, fixed at #12 by 3/4 inch. Other screws in the series carry the same steel construction and finish options but different gauge and length combinations. If 3/4 inch is too short to reach solid material on your application, stay in the series and step up the length rather than switching to a different gauge that will not sit right in the hardware's countersink.