Emtek Modern Designer Brass Leverset - Freestone Lever, Passage Set

Yes. The Freestone passage set drops into standard door prep: a 2-1/8 inch cross bore, with the latch set for either a 2-3/8 or 2-3/4 inch backset. The set covers doors 1-3/8 to 2-1/4 inches thick. One caveat on rosette choice: the STRETTO rosette needs a 1-1/4 inch diameter bore and a 2-hole prep instead, so if you are working with existing standard prep, stay with one of the round or square brass rosettes.

Yes, the Freestone lever is handed. You order it Left Hand or Right Hand, so check which way the door swings and which side the lever sits on before you place the order. Unlike a lot of commercial cylindrical levers that ship non-handed and field-reversible, this one is built to the hand you select.

There is no lock of any kind. Passage function means the latch retracts from either lever every time, all the time. No key, no thumbturn, no pushbutton. It is the right set for a hall, a closet, a pantry, or a laundry door. If you need the door to secure for a bedroom or bath, that is a privacy set with a thumbturn, and for a keyed exterior or office door you want an entry set instead.

Measure from the door edge to the center of the bore hole. Interior residential doors are usually 2-3/8 inches, which is what the standard latch ships as. If yours measures 2-3/4 inches, you have to call that out at order time, since backset is a required selection on the set. Getting it wrong means the latch will not line up with the hole in the edge of the door.

No. The Freestone passage set has no locking mechanism at all, so it cannot serve a bedroom or bathroom. Emtek builds the Freestone lever in a privacy version with a thumbturn, and that is what those doors need. Note the prep difference if you go with the STRETTO rosette for thumbturn privacy: it takes a 1-1/4 inch bore and a 2-hole door prep, not the standard 2-1/8 inch single bore.

The Emtek Freestone lever in passage function is a residential brass leverset, non-keyed, with a tubular latch. For a commercial opening in the same passage/hall/closet function, the Falcon K101 is a Grade 1 heavy duty passage cylindrical lock with non-handed levers, a fire rating, and a 1-3/8 inch to 2-1/4 inch door thickness range. The Corbin Russwin CL3110 is another Grade 1 passage/closet lever, vandal resistant and fire rated, for doors 1-3/4 inch to 2 inch. Both are cylindrical passage locks like the Freestone but built to ANSI Grade 1 for institutional traffic, where the Freestone is a designer brass set for residential and light-use interior doors.

The Freestone passage set is non-keyed and does not lock at all; it is a hall and closet function. For a door that needs to lock from inside, the Baldwin Estate 5103 privacy lever with 5048 rose is the privacy version of an equivalent designer brass lever, and the Kwikset 300BRNL Breton privacy lever set covers doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch at Grade 3. The Hager 2540 with Withnell lever is another privacy-function cylindrical lock for 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch doors. Emtek itself builds privacy versions of its lever designs, so the Freestone trim can carry through a house with passage on the closets and privacy on the baths.

They look alike on the door and are not interchangeable. The Freestone passage set is a working cylindrical lockset sold complete with latch and strike plate, so the lever retracts a bolt and the door latches shut. A dummy lever is surface-mounted trim with no latch at all, used on a fixed inactive leaf or a ball-catch door: the Baldwin Estate 5103 half dummy comes handed left or right, the BEST 7KC single dummy trim is Grade 2, and the BEST 9K 1DT is a Grade 1 heavy duty single dummy trim. If the door must stay closed on its own, the passage set is the correct part; the dummy is only a pull.

The Emtek Freestone passage set is specified for doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch thick with a 2-1/8 inch cross bore. For a thicker slab in the same passage function, the Falcon K101 covers 1-3/8 inch to 2-1/4 inch, the Hager 2510 Withnell passage lever covers 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch, and the Arrow GL01 Sierra lever passage lock covers 1-3/4 inch to 2 inch. All three are non-keyed cylindrical passage locks, so the door swings and latches the same way; the change is the thickness range the chassis accepts.

It is a complete set: both levers, the rosettes you pick, the latch, and the strike plate. Nothing else to buy for a standard bored door. The latch faceplate comes round corner or square corner, so match it to the mortise already cut in the door edge if you are swapping hardware rather than prepping new.

Select the CF (concealed fastener) mechanism when you order. That version mounts the rosettes with no exposed screws and ships with the 28 degree latch. You can also take the 28 degree latch on its own without the CF mechanism, or skip both and take the standard set. The concealed option is the one to pick when the hardware is on display in a finished space.

Eight finishes are offered: Flat Black (US19), French Antique (US7), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Chrome (US26), Polished Nickel Lifetime (US14), Satin Brass (US4), Satin Nickel (US15), and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL). There are also six rosette shapes to choose from, and the lever can be ordered with any brass rosette, so you can carry one lever design across a whole floor and change only the rose to suit each room. A split finish is available as a special request if the two faces of a door need to differ.

Yes. The set covers 1-3/8 through 2-1/4 inch doors, so a 1-3/4 inch solid core is well inside range. There is also a door thickness field at order time, worth filling in if your door is at the thick end so the set is built out correctly. For anything thicker than 2-1/4 inches this is not the lock.

For the same decorative residential category, the Baldwin Estate 5103 passage lever with the 5048 rose is the closest peer in look and function. The Bravura Miramar is a Grade 2 passage leverset offered in US4 satin brass with round trim, and Bravura also does the Tampa with square trim if you want the harder-edged rose. Where the Freestone differs is the rosette range: six shapes and eight finishes on one lever design, plus a concealed-fastener option, which the others do not offer.

The Emtek Freestone passage set is a solid brass designer leverset offered in eight finishes and six rosette styles. If the opening only needs a working latch without the designer trim, the Kwikset 200BRNL Breton passage lever is a Grade 3 passage/hall/closet lever for doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch, and the Callan Asheville is a Grade 3 passage leverset in satin nickel. The Bravura Atlanta and Bravura Orlando are Grade 2 passage leversets with round trim. All four latch without locking, the same as the Freestone passage function; the difference is the brass construction and the rosette and finish range on the Emtek.

The Baldwin Estate 5103 passage lever with 5048 rose is the closest peer in character: a designer passage lever from a residential brass line, offered in matching privacy and half dummy versions so a whole house can be trimmed out in one design. The Emtek Freestone passage set covers the same passage/hall/closet function in brass, with the choice of Disk, Modern, Modern Rectangular, Neos, Square, or Urban Modern rosette and eight finishes including Unlacquered Brass and Flat Black. The Deltana Manchester and Morant levers are brass-line entry levers rather than passage, so they suit a keyed opening in the same house rather than an interior door.

Yes. The Emtek Freestone passage set is ordered as Left Hand or Right Hand, so the handing of the opening has to be confirmed before ordering. Several commercial passage levers avoid that step: the Falcon K101 and the Falcon B101 both use non-handed levers, and the Arrow GL01 Sierra lever is a non-keyed passage lock in the GL series. For a property standardizing across many doors, a non-handed passage lever removes the handing decision from every order, while the Freestone trades that for the designer brass trim and rosette selection.

The Freestone passage set is a mechanical, non-electronic lever with no code entry. For keyless access on a comparable lever body, the Lockey 2835 is a mechanical pushbutton keyless lever lock with passage function and ADA compliance for doors 1-3/16 inch to 2 inch, and the Lockey 2835DC is the double combination version. The Lockey 1150 is a heavy duty mechanical keypad lever set with passage function for doors 1-1/8 inch to 2 inch, and the 1150S adds an adjustable backset. The Delaney LP250 is an electronic keypad leverlock at Grade 2 if power-driven entry is wanted rather than mechanical.

For unit interiors, the Emtek Freestone passage set is a brass residential lever with a 2-1/8 inch cross bore, adjustable 2-3/8 inch or 2-3/4 inch backset, and a choice of round or square corner latch faceplate, so it drops into a standard bored prep. For corridor and back-of-house doors in the same building, the Grade 2 passage options include the Accentra 5301LN Augusta from the 5300 series, the Accentra 4601LN with Augusta trim from the 4600 series, and the Design Hardware J75 flat lever passage lockset for 1-3/4 inch doors, with the Design Hardware X75 as the Grade 1 version of the same flat lever. That lets one property run designer brass inside the units and rated commercial levers on the shared doors.

Three near-misses come up often. Entry and entrance levers such as the Cal-Royal AG00, the Hager 2525, and the Deltana Claremont 5851 are keyed or locking functions, not the free-swinging passage the Freestone provides. Escutcheon exit device trim such as the Imperial USA ED-EL500HD mounts to a panic device rather than into a bored door prep. And the Codelocks CL410 and CL415 tubular latchbolt is a latch component for a code lock, not a complete lockset. The Freestone ships as a complete set with latch and strike plate for a 2-1/8 inch bored door prep.

Six: Disk, Modern Rectangular, Modern, Neos, Square, and Urban Modern. The lever itself is a contemporary flat design, so the rectangular and square roses read hard-edged and modern, while the disk and modern round roses soften it against traditional casing. All are brass, matching the lever.

Brass through the substrate, not a plated pot-metal core. That matters on a lever people grab every day: the finish sits on brass, and the unlacquered brass option (US3NL) is meant to patina naturally over time rather than hold a coating.

No, the Freestone is a mechanical, non-electronic lever with no keypad or credential reader. If you need keyless entry on an interior or light-commercial door, the Lockey 2835 is a mechanical pushbutton keyless lever for 1-3/16 to 2 inch doors, and the Delaney LP250 is an electronic keypad leverlock. Neither will match Emtek trim, so they are a function swap, not a finish match.