Emtek 3331 Da Vinci Lost Wax Cast Bronze Mortise Entrance Handleset - Entry Set

Handing is required on every Emtek 3331 order. The mortise lock is built handed, so you pick LH, RH, LHR or RHR, and the R versions are the reverse-bevel handings for an out-swing door. Get it wrong and the latch bevel faces the wrong way on the opening. Stand outside the door: if the hinges are on your left and the door swings away from you it's LH, hinges left and swinging toward you it's LHR.

Two backsets are offered on the 3331, 2-1/2 inch and 2-3/4 inch, so measure from the door edge to the centerline of the existing lock case before you order. The pocket is cut to standard mortise door prep per ANSI A115.1, so it drops into an opening already prepped to that standard. A latch and strike plate come in the set.

1-3/4 inch is the standard build for the 3331, which is the usual thickness for an exterior entry door. Thicker doors are handled, but you have to state the actual thickness on the order so the spindles and cylinder length are made to suit. There's a door thickness field on the order form for exactly that.

F20 is the office/entrance function: the outside lever or knob can be locked and unlocked by key or by the inside thumbturn, and the inside is always free to exit. F13 is the dormitory function, where the outside trim stays locked and is released by key only, with the inside always free egress. F20 is what most houses and entry doors want. F13 suits an opening that should never be left unlocked by accident, like a rental unit or a dorm-style door. Both are offered on the 3331 in either backset and either bronze finish.

Schlage C keyway on the 3331, which is the standard six-pin residential and light commercial Schlage keyway. If your building is already on Schlage C you can have it keyed to code so the existing key works. You can also order keyed alike across multiple sets, or keyed different, at no charge. It's a single cylinder set, so key outside and thumbturn inside.

The inside trim is part of the order, not a separate purchase, but you do have to choose it. Any Emtek Lost Wax Cast Bronze knob or lever can go on the interior side, and there are 25 styles to pick from: Aurora, Bryce, Cimarron, Cody, Durango, Lariat, Mariposa, Montrose, Teton and Yuma levers, plus Butte, Egg, Round, Winchester, Bristol, Hampton, Lowell, Windsor, Astoria, Diamond, Georgetown, Modern Disc, Modern Square, Old Town and Providence knobs. Levers are the choice where accessibility matters or where someone will be carrying things through the door.

A mortise set like the Emtek 3331 needs a rectangular pocket routed into the door edge, which is more prep, but it puts the whole lock mechanism in one steel case and lets you carry a fire rating. A tubular handleset only needs a bored cross hole and a latch bore, so it retrofits a standard prepped door with no routing. If your door is already mortise prepped or you need the rating, stay mortise. If you are working with a standard bored door, a tubular set like the Sure-Loc Alta or the Pamex FS7P31 Lexington, which covers 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inch doors, is the easier swap.

Baldwin's Estates 6542 Tremont is the other mortise entry trim to look at, in single cylinder or double cylinder, rated for 1-3/4 inch doors. Double cylinder means a key on both sides instead of a thumbturn, which some jurisdictions restrict on an egress door. Everything else in the handleset range, the Kwikset Amador and Belleview, the Schlage F60 Addison, the Weslock and Sure-Loc sets, is bored rather than mortise, so they will not go into a mortise pocket.

The Emtek 3331 Da Vinci is a mortise entry handleset in cast bronze, prepped to ANSI A115.1 standard mortise door prep with an F20 or F13 function body. The nearest cross-brand match on the same mortise pocket is the Baldwin Estates 6542 Tremont single cylinder entry mortise trim, which is also mortise entry trim and lists a 1-3/4 inch door thickness - the same standard thickness the 3331 is built around. If you need a double cylinder mortise instead, Baldwin catalogs the Estates 6542 Tremont double cylinder entry mortise trim at the same 1-3/4 inch door thickness. Note the Baldwin 6542 items are mortise trim; the Emtek 3331 ships as a complete set with latch and strike plate.

The Emtek 3331 requires standard mortise door prep to ANSI A115.1, so it will not drop into a door bored for a tubular handleset. For a tubular opening, the Sure-Loc Alta is a tubular handleset with adjustable backset, and the Sure-Loc Aspen is a single cylinder keyed entry handleset with adjustable backset - the adjustable backset covers the common bored-door hole centers without a new prep. Kwikset's 687AMD Amador single cylinder keyed entry handleset and 687BW Belleview single cylinder keyed entry handleset are both Grade 3 and list a 1-3/4 inch door thickness. Schlage Residential's F60 Addison keyed entry handleset with Accent lever is Grade 2 and covers 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inch doors.

The Emtek 3331 is built for 1-3/4 inch doors as standard and takes a door thickness entry when the door is thicker, so a thicker slab is a specify-at-order item rather than a stock configuration. If you would rather buy a handleset that publishes the thicker range outright, the Weslock 1411 Traditionale Colonial handleset with Eleganti knob is single cylinder keyed entry and lists 1-3/4 to 2-1/4 inch. Weslock's 2810 Hillcrest single cylinder handleset with Hudson knob covers 1-3/8 to 2 inch. On the electronic side, the Yale Real Living BYRD226NRRX Assure Lock standalone touchscreen deadbolt with Ridgefield handleset also lists 1-3/4 to 2-1/4 inch.

The Emtek 3331 is a keyed single cylinder entry handleset, so anything without a lock function is not a swap for it even when the exterior trim looks similar. The Weslock 6695 Belmont with Impresa knob and the Weslock 2815 Hillcrest with New Heaven lever are both dummy handlesets - trim only, no latch operation. The Schlage Residential JE285 Barcelona style handleset with Seville lever is a non-keyed entry function. Any of the three suits an inactive leaf of a pair or a door that latches elsewhere, but none will key the opening the way the 3331 does.

Emtek lists the 3331 Da Vinci as a residential product, so it belongs on entry doors, unit doors and light-duty openings rather than a high-cycle commercial entrance. The UL 180 minute fire rating still applies, which is what lets it go on a rated unit door in multi-family. For a heavy-traffic commercial opening, specify a Grade 1 commercial mortise lock instead.

Two: Flat Black Bronze (FB) and Medium Bronze (MB). Both are available in either backset, either function and all four handings. This is lost wax cast bronze, a living finish, so it will shift and darken with handling and weather rather than staying uniform like a plated finish. If you are matching other openings in a building, order all the sets at once so they age together.

The 3331 is part of the Da Vinci series in the Tuscany Bronze collection, lost wax cast bronze. If the other doors carry Tuscany Bronze Emtek trim in the same Flat Black or Medium Bronze, it will read as a set, though a bronze living finish on an older door will have darkened and a new piece starts lighter. Since you choose the inside knob or lever separately, you can match the interior trim style to whatever is already on the other doors even if the exterior handle differs.

The Emtek 3331 is a mechanical, non-electronic keyed handleset on a Schlage C keyway, with keying handled as keyed alike or keyed different at order. For an opening that needs code or app access instead of a key, the Yale Real Living BYRD226CBARX Assure Lock pairs a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth touchscreen deadbolt with the Ridgefield handleset over a 1-3/4 to 2-1/4 inch door, and the BYRD256 CBARX is the key-free Wi-Fi version with the Ridgefield passage handleset and trim. Kwikset's 815SCEHFL-CP913CNT San Clemente handleset pairs a Halifax lever interior trim with a contemporary SmartCode keypad electronic deadbolt on a 1-3/4 inch door, and ships with the RCAL latch and RCS strike. All of these are deadbolt-plus-handleset assemblies rather than a mortise body.

The Emtek 3331 Da Vinci is lost wax cast bronze, offered in Flat Black Bronze and Medium Bronze, with the inside trim chosen from the cast bronze knob and lever range. If solid brass is the material you want on the same kind of traditional entry handleset, Deltana catalogs four: the 803871B Hanover, the 815871 St. Ann and the 825871 Kingston are all solid brass entry handlesets, and the 810871 Montego covers 1-3/8 to 2 inch doors. Baldwin's Wesley handleset comes paired with either the Alcott knob or the Carnaby knob as an entrance set. The Deltana and Baldwin sets are bored-door handlesets, so the door prep differs from the 3331 mortise pocket.

Handing is required on the Emtek 3331 and every other mortise lock, which is why it is ordered as LH, RH, LHR or RHR against an in-swing or out-swing door. Bored-door handlesets sidestep that decision entirely. The Sure-Loc Madison keyed entry handleset, the Sure-Loc Coral handleset and the Sure-Loc Aspen single cylinder keyed entry handleset all use an adjustable backset, and the Pamex FS7P31 Lexington single cylinder handleset in satin nickel covers 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inch doors. If the crew orders in volume and handing errors are the problem you are solving, these remove the variable - at the cost of the mortise body and its UL 180 minute rating.

The Emtek 3331 combines the latch and the locking into one mortise body, ordered as an F20 entrance or F13 dormitory function with a Schlage C keyway. For an opening the specifier wants split - a passage latch plus its own keyed deadbolt, interconnected so one motion retracts both - the Schlage Residential JI18/19 interconnected passage lock with keyed deadbolt and Torino lever in satin stainless steel is Grade 2 and covers 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inch doors. It gives the same single-motion egress behavior on a bored door instead of a mortise pocket.