Emtek Cup Cabinet Pull, Schaub Collection

Emtek lists the Cup pull as residential. For a hotel casegoods package, a school casework spec, or anything with a commercial cycle requirement behind it, treat this as a residential-duty item and look at a heavy-duty option instead. The Deltana SBP35 Modern Square Bar Pull is listed as heavy-duty solid brass at 3-1/2 inch, and Trimco's 553 Series drawer pull at 3 inch CTC is another line to price for institutional work.

A cup pull is a half-cup shell you hook your fingers up into from underneath, so it only works where you approach the drawer from the front and below. It suits traditional and shaker cabinetry, which is the styling Emtek gives the Cup. If you want a pull you can grab from any angle, or you are doing a modern kitchen, a bar pull is the other route: Omnia's 1968/102 is a forged solid brass modern pull at 4 inch CTC, so it drops into the same hole spacing as the 4 inch Cup if you change your mind after the fronts are drilled.

Cup pulls are drawer hardware. The cup faces up and you lift into it, which works on a drawer front but gives you nothing useful on a swinging door. Pair the Cup on your drawer banks with a knob on the doors: Orca Hardware's Bachelor Collection round cabinet knob is 1-1/4 inch diameter, and the Blackcomb square knob is 25mm, both listed as cabinet knobs.

The Emtek Cup Cabinet Pull is a brass, traditional-style cup pull offered from 3 inch to 12 inch center to center. If you want a different look on the same 3 inch hole spacing, the Trimco 553 Series drawer pull is made in 3 inch ctc, and the Schaub 10010 Sabre is a 3 inch center to center edge pull. All three land on the same two drilled holes, so drawer fronts already bored at 3 inch accept any of them; the Emtek cup is a scooped bin shape gripped from underneath, the Trimco 553 is a drawer pull, and the Schaub 10010 mounts at the edge of the front rather than on its face.

The Emtek Cup Cabinet Pull is made in a 4 inch center to center size in finishes including Oil Rubbed Bronze US10B, Satin Nickel US15, Flat Black US19 and Polished Chrome US26. On the same 4 inch bore, the Trimco 562 Series drawer pull is offered in 4 inch ctc among its options, the Omnia 1968/102 is a forged solid brass cabinet pull with 4 inch center to center spacing, and the Schaub 10011 is a 4 inch center to center Sabre edge pull. The Omnia 1968/102 and the Trimco 562 are bar-form pulls you wrap a hand around; the Emtek cup is a traditional bin form; the Schaub 10011 sits at the edge of the front instead of on its face.

No. The Emtek Cup Cabinet Pull is a face-mounted brass bin pull that stands proud of the drawer front and is gripped from beneath the scoop. The Schaub Sabre edge pulls, the 10010 at 3 inch, the 10011 at 4 inch and the 10012 at 5 inch center to center, are edge pulls, meant for the edge of a front or a sliding panel where nothing can project from the face. If the drawing calls for a flush or near-flush condition, or the drawer sits behind a closing panel, the Sabre edge pulls solve that opening and a cup pull does not.

The Emtek Cup Cabinet Pull is offered at 3 inch and 4 inch center to center within a 3 inch to 12 inch range, so a front drilled at 3-1/2 inch does not line up with the 3 inch or 4 inch sizes. For that exact spacing, the Deltana SBP35 modern square bar pull is a 3-1/2 inch solid brass pull and the Trimco 562 Series drawer pull lists a 3-1/2 inch ctc option. If you want the cup form specifically, plan on re-boring the fronts to 3 inch or 4 inch.

Mounting screws are included with the Cup pull, so nothing extra is needed for a standard drawer front. Note that cup pulls mount from the back of the drawer face, so on an unusually thick front you may need longer screws than the ones packed in the box.

Nine finishes cover the Cup pull: Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Nickel (US14), Satin Nickel (US15), Pewter (US15A), Flat Black (US19), Polished Chrome (US26), Polished Brass Lifetime (US3), Unlacquered Brass (US3NL), and French Antique (US7). US codes are the standard finish designations, so if the rest of your kitchen hardware is specified in US15 or US10B, the Cup matches into that same scheme.

Brass, both in the material and the substrate, not a zinc or steel pull with a brass-tone coating. That matters on a drawer that gets pulled hundreds of times a week, and it is why the Unlacquered Brass version will patina with handling rather than wear through a plating.

The Cup pull number is built from the CTC and the finish code. Satin Nickel at 4 inch center-to-center is SPC86173US15. The 3 inch equivalent is SPC86123US15, so SPC8612 is the 3 inch body and SPC8617 the 4 inch, with the US finish code appended. Give the full number with the finish suffix when ordering, otherwise the size and finish are ambiguous.

The Cup pull is a two-hole mount, so a slab front has to be drilled at 3 or 4 inch center-to-center to take it. If you would rather not drill the face at all, an edge pull mounts on the top edge of the drawer instead. Schaub's Sabre edge pulls cover 3 inch, 4 inch, and 5 inch center-to-center, models 10010, 10011, and 10012.

The Emtek Cup Cabinet Pull runs up to 12 inch center to center in brass, and it is a residential cabinet pull gripped from beneath the cup, which suits drawers more than a tall door you pull straight out. For an appliance panel, the Schaub 79-8 Steamworks 8 inch pull is built as an appliance pull, and the Orca Hardware CK-12001 T-pull bar is a steel pull with a 2 inch bar width in satin nickel. Both give you a full-hand grip across the face rather than a fingertip grip under a scoop.

The Emtek Cup Cabinet Pull mounts on two holes at a fixed center to center spacing from 3 inch to 12 inch. Where a front is bored for a single screw, use a cabinet knob instead: the Orca Hardware CK-15030 Bachelor round cabinet knob at 1-1/4 inch diameter, the CK-16030 round ring cabinet knob at 1-1/4 inch diameter, or the CK-17025 Blackcomb square cabinet knob at 25mm diameter. These are knobs rather than pulls, so a run of drawers already drilled for two-hole spacing would need new fronts or filled and re-bored holes to take them.

The Emtek Cup Cabinet Pull is a traditional, American Classic style brass pull. For a contemporary front on comparable brass construction, the Omnia 1969, 1970 and 1971 are modern forged solid brass cabinet pulls, with 1-3/16 inch projection on the 1969 and the 1971 and 1-1/4 inch projection on the 1970, and the Deltana SBP35 is a heavy-duty solid brass modern square bar pull at 3-1/2 inch. The Omnia and Deltana pulls are straight bar forms held from the front; the Emtek is a scooped cup gripped from underneath, so the two read very differently on the same door.

The Emtek Cup Cabinet Pull is solid brass and specified for residential use, and brass takes a hand-polished or plated finish such as Polished Nickel US14, Pewter US15A or Unlacquered Brass US3NL. If you are standardizing across heavy-use fronts and want a different substrate, the Orca Hardware CK-12001 T-pull bar is steel in satin nickel, and the Deltana SBP35 square bar pull is described as heavy-duty solid brass. Bar pulls take a full-hand load across two posts; the cup concentrates the grip under one scoop, which is worth weighing on drawers that get yanked all day.