Emtek SELECT Brass T-Bar Straight Knurled Lever - Dummy Set

No boring needed. The T-Bar Straight Knurled dummy set is surface mount, so it screws to the face of the door with no 2-1/8 inch cross bore and no latch bore. That's what makes it the usual choice for a closet door, a pantry, or the inactive leaf of a French pair where you only need something to pull on. It's non-keyed and has no latch at all, so it will not hold a door shut on its own.

Yes, handing is a required choice on the T-Bar Straight Knurled dummy set. It's ordered Left Hand (LH) or Right Hand (RH), and unlike a passage lever with a clutch, a dummy lever is fixed, so the wrong hand points the lever the wrong way and can't be flipped in the field. Stand outside the door: the side the hinges are on tells you the hand. On a pair of doors you'll want one of each.

That's the point of the SELECT Series build. The Straight Knurled lever on a T-Bar stem comes in Flat Black (US19), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Chrome (US26), Polished Nickel Lifetime (US14), Satin Brass (US4), Satin Nickel (US15) and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL), with the finish covering both the rosette and the stem. Pick the same lever, rosette and finish you used on the functioning doors and the closet or French door trim reads identical.

It's built as residential hardware, so for a leased corridor, a school or a healthcare facility where a graded lockset is specified, it's the wrong pick. Go to a Grade 1 dummy trim like the BEST 9K Series 1DT or the Accentra 455LN Augusta, or the Grade 2 BEST 7KC Series 1DT for medium duty. Where the Emtek does belong is in a residence, a model unit, or high-end hospitality millwork where the look is doing the work.

The Baldwin Estate 5103 half dummy lever on the 5048 rose is the nearest match in the same decorative residential vein, and it is handed the same way the Emtek is: Baldwin sells it as a left hand version and a right hand version, matching the Emtek's Left Hand (LH) and Right Hand (RH) choice. Both are dummy function, so neither has a latch and neither needs a bore for one. The difference is trim: the Emtek SELECT lever is brass with a T-Bar stem and seven rosette shapes to choose from, while the Baldwin comes on its own 5048 rose.

The Emtek SELECT T-Bar Straight Knurled lever is a residential dummy set. For a commercial opening, the BEST 9K Series 1DT single dummy trim is a Grade 1 heavy duty non-keyed dummy lever, and the BEST 7KC Series single dummy trim is the Grade 2 medium duty version of the same idea. Accentra's 455LN Augusta single dummy is another Grade 1 dummy lever, in the 5400 Series. All three are dummy function like the Emtek, so they pull only and do not latch.

A dummy set has no latch at all, so if the door has to stay shut you need a passage lever instead. In the same decorative residential family, the Baldwin Estate 5103 is offered as a passage lever on the 5048 rose and as a privacy lever if the room needs to lock from the inside. On the commercial side, the Falcon B101 is a Grade 2 medium duty passage lever with a non-handed design, and the Corbin Russwin CL3110 is a Grade 1 fire rated vandal resistant passage lever for 1-3/4 inch to 2 inch doors.

The Emtek SELECT T-Bar Straight Knurled dummy set covers doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch. For a 2 inch door, levers rated to that thickness include the Hager 2510 Grade 2 passage lever at 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch, the Dexter C1000 asylum function at 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch, and the Falcon K101 Grade 1 fire rated passage lever, which reaches 1-3/8 inch to 2-1/4 inch. Those are latching functions rather than dummy trim, so pick the function the opening needs.

The T-Bar Straight Knurled dummy is sold as a complete set. The lever, the T-Bar stem and the brass rosette ship together, so there's nothing separate to add to finish the trim on that side.

Seven rosettes pair with the Straight Knurled lever: Disk, Modern Rectangular, Quincy, Square, Urban Modern, Watford and Wilshire. That's the choice that decides whether the trim reads round or squared off against your door style, and any brass rosette in the range can be ordered with this lever.

The Callan Bentley is a Grade 2 dummy lever and the plainer option if the door is out of sight, a basement closet or a rental turn. What you give up against the Emtek Straight Knurled set is the brass construction, the seven-finish range and the choice of rosette shape. If it's a visible door in a finished space, that trade usually goes the other way.

Careful here. Because the Straight Knurled dummy is surface mount and needs no door prep, it has no chassis filling a 2-1/8 inch cross bore. Whether the rosette hides an existing bore depends on which of the seven rosettes you choose and the size of the hole already in the door, and that isn't something to assume. Where you're swapping a working lever on a door that has a bore, a passage-function lever is the cleaner replacement.

Both are dummy levers, so both mount to the face of the door with no latch. The Callan BN5051 Bentley is a Grade 2 dummy lever, while the Emtek SELECT T-Bar Straight Knurled is a residential brass set with the lever, stem and rosette finished together across seven finishes from Flat Black (US19) to Unlacquered Brass (US3NL). If the job is matching an existing decorative brass suite, the finish and rosette range is what separates them; if the job is a graded opening, the Bentley carries the Grade 2 rating.

Not as a substitute for the same opening. The Emtek SELECT T-Bar Straight Knurled is a non-keyed dummy set, surface mounted with no door prep required, so the door has no bore or latch to accept a keyed or electronic lock. Products like the Delaney LP250 electronic keypad leverlock or the Lockey 2835 mechanical pushbutton keyless lever both need a bored door. If you want a keyless lever on a door that is currently carrying dummy trim, the door has to be prepped first.

Deltana's entry levers cover the same decorative territory in several designs - the 6201 Manchester, 6411 Morant and 6431 Linstead all fit doors 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch, and the 5851 Claremont is in the same Deltana entry family. Bravura's leversets come in round trim styles such as the Atlanta and Orlando and a square trim style, the Tampa, all Grade 2 passage. Where the Emtek differs is function: it is a dummy set, so it pairs with those on the doors that only need a pull.

No. The Imperial USA ED-EL500HD is heavy duty escutcheon lever trim in the ED-500 Series, meaning it is the outside trim that works with an exit device, not a standalone lever for a door leaf. The Emtek SELECT T-Bar Straight Knurled is a complete dummy set, sold as a set, that surface mounts with no door prep. The Corbin Russwin 585F715 is similarly a lock lever for the ED8000 pushpad exit device rather than a set on its own.

Brass throughout, both the material and the substrate. The knurled texture is machined into the brass grip rather than applied as a coating, and the unlacquered brass option (US3NL) is a living finish that will darken with handling if you want it to patina.

The Emtek SELECT set uses the Straight Knurled (SK) lever on a T-Bar (TA) stem. For a smooth flat lever on the same kind of door, Design Hardware offers the J75 passage lever with a flat lever in Grade 2 and the X75 passage lever with a flat lever in Grade 1, both for 1-3/4 inch doors. Kwikset's 200BRNL Breton passage lever is a Grade 3 option for 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch doors, with the 300BRNL Breton as the privacy version for bed and bath.