Emtek 455929 Brighton Grip by Grip Entrance Handleset - Sandcast Bronze Tubular - Dummy

The Brighton grip by grip handleset is a dummy, non-keyed, with no latch and no working lock. It's a pull only. Both sides get a grip, so it's what you use on the inactive leaf of a double door or on a slab that's held shut by something else (a flush bolt, a ball catch, a roller catch). If you need the door to actually latch or lock, this isn't the part.

None. The Brighton grip by grip dummy is surface mount, so there's no bore, no cross-bore, and no latch mortise to cut. It fastens through the door with the grips aligned at 5-1/2 inch center to center, which is the hole spacing you need to lay out. That makes it a clean option on a slab you don't want to drill up, or on a door already bored where you're only covering the face.

That's the usual application. On a pair, the active leaf takes a keyed or single-cylinder handleset and the inactive leaf takes a grip by grip dummy like the Brighton, held by flush bolts top and bottom. You get matching grips on both leaves from outside and matching grips on both leaves inside, which is the look you can't get with a standard handleset that has a knob or lever on the interior. Nothing on the dummy secures the door, so the flush bolts or a surface bolt do that work.

No handing. Because both sides are grips and there's no latch or lever to orient, the Brighton dummy goes on a left or right hand door either way. Nothing to swap, nothing to field-reverse.

Three: Flat Black Bronze (FB), Medium Bronze (MB), and Tumbled White Bronze (TWB). All three are Emtek's Sandcast Bronze collection, so they'll live alongside other sandcast bronze Emtek trim in the same finish across a house. If you want one finish on the exterior grip and a different one inside, Emtek will split the finish, but that has to be called out on the order.

Grip by grip is a custom function Emtek builds to order, so it carries an extra 2 to 3 days beyond a standard handleset. Emtek's normal catalog handleset pairs a grip outside with a knob or lever inside; putting a matching Brighton grip on both faces is an assembly they make up rather than pull from stock. Worth building into the schedule if you're closing out a punch list.

It's a residential product, and the dummy function has no latch, no deadbolt, and no cylinder. For a multi-family or commercial opening that needs a graded lock, an access-controlled entry, or fire door hardware, this is the wrong category of part. Where it does earn a place on a commercial job is decorative: a lobby vestibule leaf, a closet or a fixed panel where the hardware only needs to look right and pull.

The Brighton grip by grip is sandcast bronze, and bronze is the substrate, not a plating. Sandcasting is why the FB, MB and TWB finishes carry surface texture and slight variation piece to piece, which is normal for the line rather than a defect. Note the spec sheet also lists brass under material, so confirm the exact alloy with us if the submittal requires it.

The Brighton 455929 is catalogued as tubular, and it's mechanical, not electronic. On a dummy it changes nothing about how the door works since there's no latch either way, but it matters if you're matching hardware across a house: pair it with tubular Brighton handlesets on the operating doors and the grip, the rosette shapes and the 5-1/2 inch center to center line up. Emtek's mortise handlesets use different trim and different prep, so don't mix them on openings meant to look identical.