Emtek Blythe Cabinet Pull, Schaub Collection

The Blythe pull is offered in 3-1/2, 4, 6 and 8 inch center-to-center. Measure hole to hole on your existing pull, center of one screw hole to center of the other, and match that number. If your drawer fronts were drilled for 96mm or 128mm metric spacing, none of these land on those holes and you would be redrilling.

Six finishes across the Blythe range: Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Nickel (US14), Satin Nickel (US15), Flat Black (US19), Polished Chrome (US26) and Satin Brass (US4). All four center-to-center sizes are built in all six, so you can run one finish through a kitchen and step the sizes up from drawer to appliance front without a finish break.

Emtek rates the Blythe as residential. For a single-family remodel, a condo, or a high-end multi-family unit it is the right class of hardware. For a school, a hospital corridor casework package, or anything where a spec calls out a commercial-duty pull, look at a heavier-duty option like the Deltana SBP35 square bar pull instead.

The 8 inch center-to-center Blythe is the one to use on an appliance panel or a tall pantry front, since it is the longest size in the family. If you need more length than that, the Schaub 79-8 Steamworks 8 inch pull is catalogued specifically as an appliance pull. Keep the 3-1/2 and 4 inch Blythe for standard drawers and doors.

The Deltana SBP35 is a modern square bar pull at 3-1/2 inch center-to-center in solid brass, so it mounts on the same two-hole drilling as the 3-1/2 inch Blythe. The Trimco 562 series drawer pull also covers 3-1/2 inch center-to-center, along with 4 inch and 96mm spacings, which is useful if a run of cabinets was drilled to a metric layout. The Blythe is a brass pull in the Transitional Heritage style; the SBP35 is a square bar profile, so the hole pattern matches while the appearance does not.

The Omnia 1968/102 is a modern cabinet pull in forged solid brass with 4 inch center-to-center spacing, matching the 4 inch Blythe drilling. The Trimco 562 series also lists a 4 inch center-to-center option. Both land on the same hole centers as the 4 inch Blythe, so existing drawer fronts do not need to be re-drilled.

No. The Schaub Sabre 10010, 10011 and 10012 are edge pulls at 3 inch, 4 inch and 5 inch center-to-center, and an edge pull mounts on the edge or face lip of a door or drawer rather than standing off the face the way a surface-mounted cabinet pull does. The Blythe is a cabinet pull in brass supplied with mounting screws. If the design calls for a flush or low-profile grip on a sliding or overlay door, the Sabre edge pulls are the right family; they are not a drop-in for a face-mounted Blythe even where the center-to-center number matches.

The Trimco 553 series drawer pull is a 3 inch center-to-center pull, and the Blythe range starts at 3 inch center-to-center, so both meet a 3 inch drilling. For a property manager replacing worn pulls across a fleet of units without patching and re-boring fronts, holding to the existing 3 inch centers is what keeps the job to a swap.

Mounting screws ship with the pull. What is not included is a longer screw for thick or built-up fronts, so if you are pulling through a slab door with an applied panel behind it, check the screw length against your front before install day and pick up 8-32 machine screws in the length you need.

Brass, both the material and the substrate, so the finish sits on brass rather than on a pot-metal casting. That matters on the two living finishes here, Satin Brass and Oil Rubbed Bronze, where the surface is meant to wear into the base metal rather than chip off it.

SPC86472US10B is the 4 inch Oil Rubbed Bronze Blythe. The base number steps with size, so 4 inch is SPC86472 and 6 inch is SPC86473, with the finish code appended: SPC86473US15 is the 6 inch in Satin Nickel, SPC86474US4 the 8 inch in Satin Brass. Give a distributor the base number plus the US finish code and there is no ambiguity about which one you want.

Blythe is drawn as a transitional heritage piece, so on a strictly modern flat-slab kitchen it can read a little soft. If you want a harder, more contemporary line, the Omnia 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1971 series are forged solid brass modern pulls, and the Deltana SBP35 is a square bar profile at 3-1/2 inch center-to-center. Blythe is the better choice on shaker and raised-panel doors.

The Schaub 79-8 Steamworks is an 8 inch appliance pull, sized and intended for the larger, heavier fronts on refrigerator and pantry panels. The Blythe runs 3 inch to 12 inch center-to-center as a cabinet pull, so a long Blythe will visually suit a tall door while the 79-8 is built as an appliance pull specifically. On a mixed kitchen, one family can carry the drawers and the other the appliance panels.

On narrow stiles and small doors where a two-hole pull will not fit the rail, a single-hole knob is the workable option. The Orca Hardware CK-15030 Bachelor round cabinet knob and CK-16030 round ring cabinet knob are both 1-1/4 inch diameter, and the CK-17025 Blackcomb is a 25mm square knob. All three are single-fastener knobs, so they need one hole rather than the paired centers a Blythe requires. Many kitchens run knobs on doors and pulls on drawers for this reason.

The Orca Hardware CK-12001 T-pull bar is steel with a 2 inch bar width, finished satin nickel. The Blythe is brass through the substrate and comes in satin nickel among its finishes, so the two can sit near each other in a satin nickel scheme with different base metals. Buyers standardizing a multi-family or rental turn package often pick one material family and hold it across every unit.

Where knuckle clearance is the deciding factor, the Omnia 1970 modern cabinet pull states a 1-1/4 inch projection, and the Omnia 1969 and 1971 both state a 1-3/16 inch projection; all three are forged solid brass. That published standoff lets a contractor check the swing against an adjacent appliance panel or a return wall before committing the drilling.

The Blythe is a transitional design, so it pairs with either traditional raised-panel doors or flat slab fronts without reading out of place. For knobs on the upper doors alongside Blythe pulls below, the Orca Bachelor Collection round knob in 1-1/4 inch diameter is a simple round shape that sits quietly next to it. Matching the finish exactly across two different brands is the risk, so pull a sample of each before committing a whole kitchen.

Blythe is Emtek's Schaub Collection, which is why the part numbers carry the SPC prefix rather than a standard Emtek number. Order it as an Emtek Blythe and quote the SPC number, for example SPC86473US14 for the 6 inch in Polished Nickel, and you will get the same pull either way.