Emtek Designer Brass Knobsets - Lancaster Knob, Dummy (Pair)

No boring needed. The Lancaster dummy knobset is surface mount, so it screws to the face of the door with no 2-1/8 inch cross bore and no latch prep. That makes it the usual choice for closet doors, French door inactive leaves, and any door that never needs to latch. If the door has already been bored for a standard cylindrical lock, a dummy set will not cover that hole the way a working lockset does, so on a previously bored door you want a passage lockset instead.

No. The Lancaster knob can be paired with any brass rosette Emtek offers, and ten are available: #8, Lancaster, Oval, Quincy, Rectangular, Regular, Ribbon and Reed, Rope, Watford and Wilshire. That's how you match a dummy pair to whatever rosette shape is already on the working doors nearby.

It's a residential product. The Lancaster is solid brass American Designer trim built for homes and light-use interiors. For a commercial opening with real traffic, look at a graded cylindrical set instead, like the BEST 6K Series dummy trim (Grade 2, medium duty) or the Schlage A170 single dummy (Grade 2, heavy duty).

For commercial work, look at graded cylindrical dummy trim. The Schlage A170 is a Grade 2 non-keyed single dummy trim rated heavy duty with a door thickness range of 1-3/8 to 1-7/8 inches. The BEST 6K-1DT is a Grade 2 medium duty single dummy trim in the 6K Series. The Cal-Royal BA40 is a dummy knob cylindrical lock for 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inch doors. The Emtek Lancaster dummy is a residential brass knobset, so where a project specifies an ANSI/BHMA grade the graded cylindrical dummies are the ones that answer the spec.

A dummy is a fixed pull with no latch, so for a door that has to hold shut you want a passage function knob. Comparable passage knobsets include the Baldwin Estate 5011 Colonial passage knob with 5058 rose, the Omnia 434/PA egg-shaped knob latchset with 3 inch projection, and the Bravura Albany passage knobset in Grade 2. If the door is a bedroom or bath and needs a thumbturn, the Baldwin Estate 5077 Bethpage privacy knob or the Deltana 6112 St. Thomas privacy knob are privacy-function options.

Seven: French Antique (US7), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Pewter (US15A), Polished Brass Lifetime (US3), Polished Chrome (US26), Satin Nickel (US15) and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL). Unlacquered brass is the one that will patina over time rather than hold its as-shipped look, so if you're standardizing a building on a consistent appearance, one of the lacquered or plated finishes is the safer call.

Yes. A split finish option is available at ordering, so you can run one finish on the bedroom side and another on the hall side. Note the finish you want for each face when you place the order.

It will, as long as you order the same knob design, rosette and finish across the set. The Lancaster is offered as a tubular-type residential knobset family, so a dummy pair on a closet can carry the same Lancaster knob and the same rosette shape as the passage and privacy sets on the bedrooms. Pick the rosette once and hold it across every opening.

They share the dummy function, but they are different products in configuration. The Bravura Biloxi is a Grade 2 dummy knobset with round trim in a fixed trim style. The Emtek Lancaster dummy is a brass knob supplied as a pair and can be ordered with any brass rosette, including Lancaster, Oval, Quincy, Rectangular, Rope, Watford, Wilshire, Ribbon and Reed, Regular and the #8 rosette, in finishes such as Oil Rubbed Bronze, Satin Nickel, Polished Chrome and Unlacquered Brass. If the job requires matching a specific rose profile across a house, the Emtek rosette selection is the differentiator; if a graded catalog number is what the spec calls for, the Biloxi is the graded item.

The Lancaster dummy knob is built for doors 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inches thick. For thicker slabs, the Deltana 3381 Egg Knob entry, Deltana 6171 Round Knob entry and Deltana 6112 St. Thomas privacy knob all cover 1-3/8 to 2 inches. The Corbin Russwin CK4310 Grade 1 passage knob also runs 1-3/8 to 2 inches, and the Falcon X101 Grade 1 passage knobset covers 1-3/8 to 2-1/4 inches. Note those are latching functions rather than dummies.

For plain rental-grade openings, the Kwikset 200P Polo passage knob ships with a 6AL latch and RCS round corner strike, and the 200P-CP clear pack version includes a round corner adjustable latch and strike. The Pamex FTF passage knob lockset is a Grade 3 option for 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inch doors, and the Sure-Loc Bergen round knob is offered as a 6-pack with adjustable backset for doing several doors at once. Those are latching passage knobs; the Emtek Lancaster dummy is a non-latching brass dummy pair, chosen when the door needs a pull only.

No. The Lancaster dummy is non-keyed with a dummy function and no cylinder. For keyed openings, comparable knobs include the Kwikset 400P-CP Polo keyed entry knob in Grade 3 for 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inch doors, the Dexter C2000 Grade 2 entry/office ball knob, the Cal-Royal BER00 Grade 3 entrance/office knob with a Kwikset keyway, and the Corbin Russwin CK4851 entrance/office knob with a conventional cylinder. For storeroom function, the Sargent 6G04 is Grade 2 and the Sargent 8XG04 is Grade 1 with a 2-3/4 inch backset.

Both are dummy-function knobs in brass. The Omnia 434/0 is a traditional egg-shaped knob single dummy interior lockset in solid brass, so the knob shape is fixed and it covers one face of the door. The Emtek Lancaster is supplied as a pair for both faces, is brass, and lets you pair the knob with any brass rosette and choose among finishes including French Antique, Pewter, Polished Brass Lifetime and Unlacquered Brass. Choose on shape and how many faces the opening needs covered.