Emtek 8065 Colonial 3-5/8" C-to-C Keyed Sideplate Lockset, Dummy (Pair) - Brass Tubular

The 8065 Colonial in dummy configuration does not latch or lock at all. It's a non-keyed dummy pair, meaning a knob or lever mounted on each face for pull only. Use it on closet doors, French door inactive leaves, or any opening that stays shut with a ball catch or roller catch supplied separately. If you need the door to latch, you need a passage version; if you need it to lock, a keyed or privacy function.

No prep needed. The dummy pair is surface mount, so it screws to the face of the door with no 2-1/8 inch bore and no edge bore. That makes it the easy retrofit on a slab that was never drilled, and it also means you can put it on a door too thin or too narrow to take a bored lock cleanly.

Handing is a required selection, right hand or left hand, and it is not optional even on a dummy. The sideplate is directional and a lever has to swing down toward the door edge, so an incorrectly handed set will point the wrong way. Stand outside the door: if the hinges are on your right, it's right hand.

The Omnia D12036PD is the nearest peer: a solid brass dummy deadbolt lever lockset with plates, carrying a double dummy function against the Emtek 8065's dummy function. Both are non-operating pairs meant to dress a door that does not latch. The dimensional difference decides it - the Emtek 8065 sideplates are 3-5/8 inch center-to-center, while the Omnia D12036PD plates are 5-1/2 inch center-to-center, so they will not land on the same existing screw holes or the same visual proportion.

The Emtek 8065 is a dummy pair with no keyed function, so it does not secure an opening. For a locking sideplate set in the same family of look, the Omnia D12036A is a single cylinder deadbolt lever lockset in solid brass, keyed from one side with a thumbturn opposite. If the door needs a key on both faces - a glass-front entry or a door where you do not want a turn reachable from outside - the Omnia D12036AC is the double cylinder version of the same lockset. Keep the Emtek 8065 for the inactive leaf of a pair or a closet door that only needs matching trim.

3-5/8 inches is the spacing between the knob or lever center and the deadbolt or upper center on the sideplate. It matters when you are lining up multiple sideplate sets on the same run of doors, since a plate at a different center-to-center will not visually line up next to it. Emtek sideplate sets are built around fixed center distances, so match the 3-5/8 inch figure if you are adding to doors that already carry it.

It ships as a complete set with the knob or lever trim on both faces plus the sideplates. Because the dummy function does not latch, you are supplying whatever holds the door closed, typically a ball catch, roller catch, or magnetic catch, and that is a separate order line.

Yes, and it's a required choice. Any Emtek brass knob or lever style can be ordered on the 8065, from Colonial-era shapes like the Providence, Waverly and Rope knobs to crystal options like Windsor and Georgetown and modern levers like the Stuttgart or Helios. That's how you keep one plate design consistent across a house while varying the grip.

It's a residential product, solid brass, and it carries no commercial grade rating. For apartment interiors, model units, and single-family work it's the right kind of hardware. For a commercial corridor or anything on a code-rated opening, specify a Grade 1 or Grade 2 cylindrical or mortise lock instead.

That's the usual application. The inactive leaf gets the dummy pair for a matching look with no working latch, held shut by flush bolts or a surface bolt, and the active leaf takes a latching or locking set at the same 3-5/8 inch center-to-center so the two plates read identically across the pair.

No. They look similar on the door and both are solid brass sideplate lever sets, but they do different jobs and prep differently. The Emtek 8065 is a dummy pair - no cylinder, no bolt - while the Omnia D12036A is a single cylinder deadbolt lever lockset, which means the door has to be bored for a deadbolt and the frame mortised for a strike. Swapping from the Emtek 8065 to the D12036A is new door prep, not a trim change; going the other direction leaves an unused bolt bore behind the plate.

Two routes. Staying with the Emtek 8065 Colonial sideplate gives 3-5/8 inch center-to-center plates in eight finishes including Oil Rubbed Bronze US10B, Satin Nickel US15, Flat Black US19 and Unlacquered Brass US3NL, with the knob or lever style chosen per door, but it is a dummy only. Staying with Omnia gives a matched trio on one plate footprint: D12036A single cylinder for entry doors, D12036AC double cylinder where a key is needed both sides, and D12036PD as the double dummy for closets and inactive leaves, all at 5-1/2 inch center-to-center. Choose the Omnia family when locking and non-locking doors must share an identical plate; choose the Emtek 8065 when the doors that need trim only are the ones being standardized.

Solid brass through the plate and trim, tubular type construction. That matters on coastal and high-humidity jobs where a plated zinc part will blister, and it's why the unlacquered option can be allowed to patina rather than flaking.

Functionally they cover the same opening. The Emtek 8065 is sold as a dummy pair - trim on both faces of the door with nothing operating - and the Omnia D12036PD carries a double dummy function, which is the same idea under a different name: a fixed plate and lever on each side. The practical difference is the plate size and construction detail, with the Emtek 8065 at 3-5/8 inch center-to-center in brass and the Omnia D12036PD at 5-1/2 inch center-to-center in solid brass. If a single-side dummy is what the door needs, neither of these is it - both are two-sided sets.