Deltana KC20 Knob Cone Cabinet, 1"

The KC20 is a small-profile cone knob: 3/4 inch diameter at the base with a 1 inch projection off the face of the door or drawer. That combination gives you a knob that grips easily but doesn't visually crowd a narrow drawer front or a glass-front cabinet stile. If you want a larger presence, a 1-1/2 inch round knob like the Schaub 131 Artifex covers that end.

Ten finishes, and they cover most cabinetry schemes: PVD Polished Brass, Polished Brass, Antique Brass, Oil Rubbed Bronze, Brushed Nickel, Antique Nickel, Polished Chrome, Brushed Chrome, Brushed Stainless, and Paint Black. Worth knowing the difference between the two brass options: the PVD Polished Brass is a physical vapor deposition coating, which is what you want in a bathroom vanity or a kitchen where hands are on it constantly, while standard Polished Brass is lacquered and will show wear sooner.

A knob mounts on one hole, so there's no center-to-center to match and no drilling template to line up. That's the practical reason knobs go on doors and small drawers, and pulls go on wide or heavy drawers where you want two hands' worth of leverage and a spread grip. If your cabinet fronts are already drilled for two-hole hardware, the KC20 won't cover those holes and you'd want a pull instead. The Schaub 10030 and 10040 are cabinet knobs built on a 7/8 inch center to center, which is the case to look at if you have an existing two-hole prep.

The Schaub 10040 Cafe Modern Oval cabinet knob is a 1 inch knob, the same nominal size as the Deltana KC20 cone knob. Both are cabinet knobs for doors and drawer fronts, so either fills the same slot in a kitchen or casework package. The difference is form: the KC20 is a cone profile, while the Schaub 10040 is an oval. If the 1 inch dimension is what matters for your drawer face proportion, the two are interchangeable in size; if the cone shape is what was specified, stay with the KC20.

The Schaub 131 is a 1-1/2 inch round cabinet knob, a half inch larger across than the 1 inch Deltana KC20. On wide or tall drawer fronts and on full-height pantry doors, the larger diameter reads in proportion where a 1 inch knob can look undersized. Both are cabinet knobs, so the application is the same; you are choosing scale. If you are mixing sizes in one kitchen, a common approach is the smaller knob on upper doors and the larger on base drawers.

The Schaub 10030 Cafe Modern Oval Slot knob is a 1 inch knob like the Deltana KC20, but it is built with 7/8 inch center to center, meaning it mounts on two screws in a pair of holes rather than a single central screw the way a one-piece cone knob does. The Schaub 10040 is the same story at 1 inch with 7/8 inch center to center. If you are replacing existing single-bore KC20 knobs, a two-hole knob will not land on the existing prep and you would be drilling every door and drawer front. Confirm the bore pattern in the casework before you order across the two.

Solid brass, both the material and the substrate, with the finish applied over it. That matters for a knob that gets pulled hundreds of times a week: the threaded post is brass rather than a zinc or plated pot-metal casting, and the shape holds up to repeated handling. The Delaney Solid Brass Cabinet Knob is another solid brass option if you're spec'ing to that material across a kitchen.

Deltana rates the KC20 as residential cabinet hardware. For multi-family unit kitchens, model units, and finish-out where the cabinetry is residential-grade, that's the correct application. For a high-traffic institutional setting (a hospital nurse station casework, a school lab bench), residential-rated cabinet hardware is not what you want to standardize a facility on, and you'd be looking at commercial-rated casework hardware instead.

The KC20 is a cone profile, meaning it tapers from the mounting base out to the face rather than being round, oval, or square. If what's on your cabinets is a round ball or a mushroom shape, this won't blend, and the closer matches would be round profiles like the Orca CK-18032 Mission Round or the Orca CK-19032 Whistler. For an oval face, look at the Schaub 10040 Cafe Modern Oval.

The KC20 stands 1 inch off the face, which is the number that decides whether a corner cabinet door swings past an adjacent knob and whether an appliance panel or a drawer above will strike it. On inset doors and in tight corner runs, measure the swing arc against that 1 inch before you commit to a full kitchen's worth. On standard overlay fronts with normal reveals it's a non-issue.

The Delaney Solid Brass cabinet knob is the closest match on material, as the Deltana KC20 is brass in both substrate and body. Brass matters to property managers and MRO buyers because it holds up in kitchens and baths without the plating flaking off a zinc core the way a cast pot-metal knob can. Both are cabinet knobs from a cabinet knob series, so the decision comes down to profile and the finish you need to match on the rest of the run.

The Deltana KC20 is a residential cabinet knob. For multi-family unit turns, model kitchens, and light hospitality casework that is the correct grade of product. If you are specifying for heavy institutional traffic, treat the KC20 as the residential-duty choice and evaluate against the Emtek SELECT 8665 or the Emtek Allerton cabinet knob, both cabinet knob/pull products in the Schaub-built Emtek collections. All of these are cabinet hardware rather than door-duty hardware, so none of them carry a lockset grade.

The Emtek Art Deco cabinet knob and the Emtek Astoria glass cabinet knob are the styled alternatives to the clean cone geometry of the Deltana KC20. The Art Deco knob carries a period-patterned profile; the Astoria is a glass knob rather than an all-metal one, which changes both the look and the way it takes light in a kitchen. All three are cabinet knobs mounting to the same kind of door and drawer front, so this is purely a design decision. Keep in mind that a glass knob will not carry a metal finish across its body the way the brass KC20 does.

The Deltana KC20 cone knob is produced in ten finishes: PVD Polished Brass, Polished Brass, Antique Brass, Oil Rubbed Bronze, Brushed Nickel, Antique Nickel, Polished Chrome, Brushed Chrome, Brushed Stainless, and Paint Black. That range lets a property manager or MRO buyer standardize on a single part number across buildings with different finish schemes and still order the same knob every time. Mixing to a peer such as the Delaney solid brass cabinet knob or the Emtek SELECT 8665 means carrying a second SKU family, which is worth doing only when you need a profile the cone does not give you.

Nothing beyond the knobs themselves for a straightforward swap, but two things catch people out. Cabinet knob screws come in a standard length sized for typical door and drawer front thickness, so if you're going into a thick slab front or through a drawer box front plus an applied face, you'll need longer machine screws. And if you're drilling new fronts rather than reusing existing single-hole prep, a drilling jig keeps the knobs consistent across a run.

The Deltana KC20 is a cone profile, a tapered round form that reads transitional rather than period-specific. For a mission or craftsman package the Orca Hardware CK-18032 Mission Round cabinet knob is drawn to that vocabulary by name and collection. The Orca CK-19032 Whistler is another round cabinet knob in the same maker's line if you want a different face on a matched program. All are cabinet knobs, so any of them will serve the same doors and drawers; the choice is which style story the casework is telling.