Emtek 2212 Narrow Oval Brass Flush Pulls (2" x 7-1/4")

Projection on the 2212 narrow oval flush pull is 1/8 inch, so the cup sits essentially against the door face and the leaf runs past the jamb and into the pocket without the hardware catching. The visible plate measures 2 x 7-1/4 inches. That low profile is the reason to use a recessed cup here rather than a surface handle, which would stop the door short of the pocket.

Use a pull with a moving grip that comes out past the door face. The Baldwin 0397 SOL, from the Estate series, is a flush cup handle with a solid spindle ring pull: the ring lies down inside the cup while the door is open and lifts out to give you a finger hold to draw the door back out of the pocket. The Emtek 2212 is a fixed narrow oval cup, 2 inches by 7-1/4 inches with a 1/8 inch projection, so the grip stays inside the recess. That suits a barn door or a bypass door whose face is always reachable, and a pocket door with a stop that leaves the leading edge standing proud of the jamb. Decide by how far the door travels into the pocket, then pick the pull to match.

Emtek's narrow oval brass flush pull runs from 4 to 10 inches in height at a constant 2 inch width, and model 2212 is the 2 x 7-1/4 size in that family. The 7-1/4 covers a normal interior pocket door; the taller sizes give more hand room on a heavy or oversized leaf. Order numbers are the model plus the finish code, so flat black is 2212US19.

A recessed cup earns its place where a projecting handle would hit something: a pocket door running into the wall, a bypass panel passing its partner, a leaf that sits tight against a jamb or a return wall. The 2212 at 1/8 inch projection does exactly that. On a surface mounted barn door with open wall in front of it, nothing stops you from using it, but a surface pull or ladder pull gives far more leverage on a heavy sliding slab, and there is no clearance reason to recess anything. Bear in mind the 2212 has to be mortised into the door face, while a surface pull only needs through bolts or screws.

Emtek specifies the 2212 as residential hardware. It is a solid brass cup, 2 x 7-1/4 inches, and it holds up fine on apartment, condo and single family pocket doors, including turn work across a portfolio. For a high cycle commercial opening where the specification calls out a durability grade, put an ANSI/BHMA graded commercial pull on the drawing instead of this one.

A plain oval cup gives you a recess to hook your fingers into, which is all a normally hung pocket door needs, because the stop leaves the leading edge proud of the jamb and you are only breaking the door loose. Where somebody needs real grip, a heavy leaf or a user who cannot pinch, a cup with a fold out ring gives more purchase: the 0397 SOL Flush Cup Handle and Solid Spindle Ring Pull in the Estate series combines the two. The trade off is that the 2212 keeps a clean 1/8 inch projection with no moving part to rattle or hang up.

Seven finishes, each with its own order number: Oil Rubbed Bronze 2212US10B, Polished Nickel Lifetime 2212US14, Satin Nickel 2212US15, Flat Black 2212US19, Polished Chrome 2212US26, Unlacquered Brass 2212US3NL and Satin Brass 2212US4. They carry the standard US finish codes, so match the code on the hardware you already have rather than matching by eye across a hallway.

It darkens. US3NL is unlacquered, meaning there is no clear coat between your hand and the brass, so the cup patinas with handling and the recess where fingers land will age faster than the rest of the plate. That is expected of a living finish, not a defect, but across a run of doors the pulls will not age identically, so do not use it where uniformity matters. Satin Brass 2212US4 is the other brass tone offered on the 2212 if you want the warm color without the unlacquered surface.

The Emtek 2212 is a narrow oval flush cup pull measuring 2 inches by 7-1/4 inches, made of brass, with a 1/8 inch projection so the trim sits nearly flat to the door face, and it is offered in finishes including Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Satin Nickel (US15), Flat Black (US19), and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL). The closest cross-brand piece is the Baldwin 0397 SOL from the Estate series, a flush cup handle with a solid spindle ring pull. Both mortise into the door face and leave nothing standing proud to catch the jamb, so either one suits a sliding or pocket door. What separates them is what your hand takes hold of: the 2212 gives you a recessed oval cup you reach into, while the 0397 SOL carries a ring on a solid spindle that lifts up out of the cup.

Not without cutting new prep. The Emtek 2212 seats in a mortise sized to its 2 inch by 7-1/4 inch narrow oval body at a 1/8 inch projection, and that recess follows the oval outline. The Baldwin 0397 SOL is a flush cup handle with a solid spindle ring pull from the Estate series, which puts different hardware in the cup and a different footprint on the door face, so it will not seat in a pocket routed for the 2212. If the doors are already cut for the 2212 and you are adding or replacing pulls across an opening, staying with the 2212 keeps the existing cutouts and it is offered in Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Nickel - Lifetime (US14), Satin Nickel (US15), Flat Black (US19), Polished Chrome (US26), Satin Brass (US4), and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL) to match the finish already on the job.

One per face that gets used. A single pocket door operated from both sides takes two 2212s, one mortised into each side of the leaf at matching height. A pair of converging or bypassing pocket doors takes four. Each finish is its own part number, so a two sided door in satin nickel is two of 2212US15. If the door closes fully into the pocket with nothing standing proud of the jamb, you also want an edge pull on the leading stile to get it started, since a cup in the face is out of reach once the leaf is home.

Brass, both as the material and as the substrate under the finish, and it sits in Emtek's brass collection. So the finish is applied over a brass body rather than over pot metal, which is why the unlacquered option (US3NL) works at all: on that one the surface you are looking at is the base metal itself.