Emtek 8665 Select Cabinet Knobs, Schaub Collection

Residential. Emtek classes the 8665 Select knob for residential duty, so for a hotel casegoods package, a school casework spec, or anything facing institutional cycle requirements, look at a heavier commercial-duty knob instead. For single-family, custom residential, and multi-family unit kitchens and baths it is the right class of hardware.

No, not if you're coming off pulls. The 8665 is a single-post knob, so it mounts on one hole. A pull mounts on two holes at a fixed center-to-center, and swapping to a knob leaves the second hole exposed. Either plug and refinish the doors, or stay with a two-hole pull. If the existing bore is a single knob hole, the 8665 drops straight onto it.

The Emtek 8665 Select cabinet knob is designated residential. For an installation where you want a heavier knob, the Deltana KRB175 is described as a heavy-duty round knob, 1-3/4 inch diameter in solid brass. Both are solid brass round knobs; the KRB175 is the one carrying the heavy-duty designation and the larger grip diameter, which is the usual pick when the same drawer gets pulled dozens of times a day.

The Emtek 8665 Select knob is a contemporary-theme brass cabinet knob in smooth and knurled faces. For a different look in a round knob, the Orca Hardware CK-18032 is a Mission round cabinet knob from the 18-Mission Collection, and the Schaub 131 is a 1-1/2 inch round Artifex cabinet knob. All three are round cabinet knobs, so the mounting approach on the door or drawer front is the same familiar single-screw pattern; the difference is the face treatment and the diameter at the door.

The Emtek 8665 Select cabinet knob is sized at 1-1/4 inch. Where a narrow rail or a small drawer front calls for less face, the Schaub 1200 Modo cabinet knob is 16 mm across, and the Schaub 10040 Cafe Modern oval cabinet knob is 1 inch. The Schaub 10040 is an oval rather than a round face, which changes how it reads across a run of identical drawers.

The two Schaub knobs are close but not identical: the 10030 is a 1 inch Cafe Modern oval slot cabinet knob with 7/8 inch center to center, and the 10040 is the 1 inch Cafe Modern oval cabinet knob with 7/8 inch center to center, without the slot in the face. Both are two-hole mounts at 7/8 inch centers, so neither drops into the single hole that a round Emtek 8665 Select knob uses. If the doors are already drilled for the 8665, an oval two-hole knob is a redrill, not a swap.

Brass, both the material and the substrate, on the 8665. That matters for a knurled knob in particular, since the texture is machined into solid stock rather than plated over a zinc casting, and it's why the finish holds up on a drawer front that gets pulled daily.

Two face styles are sold under the 8665: Knurled (KNK) has a textured, cross-hatched grip surface, and Smooth (SMK) is plain. Both are the same 1-1/4 inch knob and both come in all seven finishes, so you can mix them in one room, knurled on drawers and smooth on doors, without a finish mismatch.

Seven finishes, and they carry the standard US codes so you can match them to door hardware already in the house: Satin Brass (US4), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Nickel (US14), Satin Nickel (US15), Flat Black (US19), Polished Chrome (US26), and Satin Copper (SCU). Every one is available in both the knurled and smooth face.

The 8665 takes an optional stem finish call-out at order time, which lets the post be specified in a different finish from the knob head, a two-tone build. Leave it blank and you get the knob as a single finish. Specify it when a designer has called for, say, a black stem under a satin brass head.

The 8665 tops out at 1-1/4 inch. For a bigger face, the Deltana KRB175 is a 1-3/4 inch solid brass round knob with a groove, and the Schaub 131 Artifex is a 1-1/2 inch round. Both are single-post knobs like the 8665, so they use the same one-hole cabinet bore.

The Emtek 8665 Select is a brass cabinet knob in the Emtek SELECT collection with smooth and knurled faces across seven finishes. A plainer solid brass option is the Delaney solid brass cabinet knob from the Delaney Cabinet Knobs series. Both are solid brass round cabinet knobs mounted the same way; the Emtek carries the SELECT collection styling and the finish and face-style choices, while the Delaney is a single straightforward brass knob.

They are both cabinet knobs and will hang from the same style of mounting, but they are separate design programs: the Emtek 8665 belongs to the Emtek SELECT collection with a contemporary knurled or smooth brass face, and the Orca CK-19032 Whistler is from Orca's 19-Whistler Collection. Mixing them across one room means two different face profiles and two different finish programs on the same run, so most buyers standardize on one for the uppers and lowers and use the other only where the design intentionally breaks, such as an island or a pantry.

The Schaub 131 is a 1-1/2 inch round Artifex cabinet knob, and the Emtek 8665 Select is a brass round knob at 1-1/4 inch in smooth or knurled face. The Schaub gives a quarter inch more diameter with the Artifex face treatment; the Emtek gives the SELECT collection finish range including Oil Rubbed Bronze, Flat Black, Satin Brass, Satin Copper, Polished Nickel, Satin Nickel and Polished Chrome. Pick on the diameter that suits the drawer front and the finish that matches the rest of the room.

The 8665 is Emtek's SELECT series knob in the Schaub Collection line, styled contemporary. If you're building out a Schaub-based hardware package, it sits in that program and matches on finish through the standard US codes rather than fighting a different maker's brass tone.