Emtek 220404 Rustic Modern Rectangular Sandcast Bronze Flush Pulls (2" x 4")

Very little. The Rustic Modern Rectangular flush pull has a 1/8 inch projection, so the cup body sets into a shallow 2 x 4 inch rectangular pocket and the flange sits nearly flush with the door face. It is a recessed cup pull, not a surface handle, so the door slab does need to be routed rather than just drilled.

It is a residential-rated item. For a hotel corridor, a school, or a leased commercial suite where the opening sees constant cycling and has to meet a facility hardware spec, this sandcast cup pull is not the part to standardize on. It suits residential pocket doors, closets, and barn door slabs.

A cup pull only pulls the door, it does not latch or lock. If the pocket door needs to latch closed or lock a bathroom, pair the 220404 with an Emtek Modern Rectangular pocket door lock, which is offered in a passage function among others. The flush pull then handles the opposite face or the second leaf.

The Baldwin 0397 SOL Flush Cup Handle and Solid Spindle Ring Pull, part of the Estate series, is the other flush cup pull to look at. The Emtek 220404 is a rectangular sandcast bronze flush cup pull in a 2 inch by 4 inch size with a 1/8 inch projection, so it sits nearly flat in the door face and reads as a clean rectangle. The Baldwin 0397 SOL pairs a flush cup with a solid spindle ring, giving a round ring element that swings out of the cup rather than a plain recessed rectangle. For a pocket or sliding door where nothing can protrude past the jamb, the shallow rectangular cup is the simpler form; where a hinged door or a cabinet-style opening needs something to grip and turn, the ring pull version gives you that.

They are not the same part. The Baldwin 0397 SOL is a flush cup handle combined with a solid spindle ring pull, so the cup carries a ring element inside it. The Emtek 220404 is a rectangular sandcast bronze flush cup pull, 2 inches by 4 inches, projecting 1/8 inch, with no ring or spindle component. A mortise cut for one will not necessarily suit the other, and the finished face reads differently on the door. If you are replacing an existing 220404 and want the openings to continue matching, stay with the 220404 and choose the finish; the 0397 SOL is a different pull, not a drop-in equivalent.

Solid sandcast bronze. Both the material and the substrate are bronze, so the color runs through the casting rather than sitting on a plated shell. Sandcasting leaves a slightly irregular surface and visible texture, which is the point of the Rustic Modern Rectangular line, so no two pulls look identical.

Three: Flat Black Bronze (FB), Medium Bronze (MB), and Tumbled White Bronze (TWB). Those order as SPC220404FB, SPC220404MB, and 220404TWB. If you are matching other Emtek sandcast bronze hardware in a house, order the pull in the same finish code as the levers and pocket door hardware, since these are living finishes cast in bronze rather than a painted coating.

The 220404 is sold as flush pulls, plural, which covers both faces of a single pocket door leaf. A converging pair of pocket doors that meet in the middle needs two orders plus an edge pull for the leading edge, since a cup pull recessed in the face cannot pull a door out of the pocket.

Emtek's Rustic Modern Rectangular flush pulls run 4 to 10 inches in height at a constant 2 inch width. The 220404 is the shortest of them at 2 x 4 inches, which is the size to use when the door stile is narrow or the pull sits alongside a pocket door lock and you need the vertical room. Go taller when the pull is the only hardware on a wide barn door slab and you want a grip you can find without looking.

Two different grips. The 220404 is a plain recessed rectangular cup with a 1/8 inch projection, so nothing stands proud of the door face and a pocket door still closes fully into the jamb. The Baldwin 0397 SOL from the Estate series is a flush cup handle with a solid spindle ring pull, which gives you something to hook a finger through. Pick the ring type if the door is heavy and needs real pulling force; pick the plain cup if the door has to disappear into a pocket or slide past a wall.

The Emtek 220404 is bronze material and substrate throughout, sandcast, and comes in Flat Black Bronze (FB), Medium Bronze (MB), and Tumbled White Bronze (TWB). Its 1/8 inch projection is what makes it work on a pocket door, since the pull has to clear the jamb as the door slides into the pocket. The Baldwin 0397 SOL is a flush cup handle with a solid spindle ring pull from the Estate series, and that ring element is the deciding factor: on a pocket door the ring has to be considered against the pocket clearance, while the plain rectangular cup does not. For a straightforward bronze pocket door pull, the 220404 is the form built for it.

Only if the rest is also cast bronze. The 220404 belongs to Emtek's Sandcast Bronze collection, and its Flat Black Bronze, Medium Bronze, and Tumbled White Bronze finishes are matched across that collection, not across Emtek's plated brass or stainless lines. A Medium Bronze cup pull next to an oil-rubbed plated lever will read as two different metals.

No electronics. It is a purely mechanical cast bronze cup pull with no wiring, no strike, and no credential reader, so it carries no power requirement and nothing to tie into an access control panel.