Emtek Egg Cabinet Knob, Schaub Collection

Three diameters: 1 inch, 1-1/4 inch, and 1-3/4 inch. The 1 inch and 1-1/4 inch are the usual sizes for standard drawer fronts and cabinet doors; the 1-3/4 inch reads as a statement piece and is the one people pick for large drawer banks or a pantry door where a small knob gets lost. Same egg shape and brass build across all three, so you can mix sizes in one kitchen and keep the look consistent.

A mounting screw is included with the knob, so nothing extra to order for a standard installation. Cabinet knobs take a standard 8-32 machine screw through a single bore in the door or drawer front; if you are hanging these on unusually thick fronts or over a thick applied panel, the included screw may be short and you would need a longer 8-32 in the same finish family.

The Egg knob mounts on a single bore, so it drops into one existing hole. If you are replacing pulls, you have two holes on a center-to-center spacing and a knob will not cover them, you either plug and redrill or switch to a pull on the same spacing. Going the other direction from knob to knob is straightforward, since the single bore is the same regardless of which of the three knob diameters you pick.

The Emtek Egg cabinet knob is solid brass and its largest size is 1-3/4 inch. The Deltana KRB175 is a round knob with a groove, heavy-duty, 1-3/4 inch diameter, solid brass - the same diameter and the same base material, in a round profile with a groove detail rather than the Egg's tapered oval shape. If the 1-3/4 inch Egg knob is the size you have specified and you want to stay in solid brass at that diameter, the KRB175 lands on the same dimension.

Nine finishes, and all nine are offered in each of the three sizes: 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). Worth knowing the difference between the two brasses: US3 is a lifetime polished brass that holds its shine, while US3NL is unlacquered and will patina over time with handling. If you want a uniform look years out, do not mix them.

Solid brass, both the material and the substrate. Brass is the workhorse for cabinet hardware because it does not crack or delaminate the way zinc and plated plastic knobs do, and a single-screw knob has no moving parts to wear out. That said, Emtek rates the Egg knob as residential hardware, so it is aimed at homes, apartments, and light-traffic millwork rather than a hospital corridor casework program. For a rental turn or a multi-family kitchen refresh, it is a reasonable pick; for heavy institutional casework, spec accordingly.

The Egg is a traditional, rounded egg-profile knob in solid brass and comes in three diameters. Schaub's alternatives are different shapes for different rooms: the 10040 Cafe Modern Oval is a 1 inch oval with 7/8 inch center-to-center, the 10030 is the same Cafe oval with a slot detail, and the Schaub 131 Artifex is a 1-1/2 inch round. If you want a small modern knob, the Schaub 1200 Modo is 16 mm. Pick on shape and diameter, because they all mount the same way.

Finish codes are the thing to match, and the Egg knob covers the standard Emtek range: US3, US3NL, US7, US10B, US14, US15, US15A, US19, and US26. If your passage and privacy sets are specified in one of those codes, order the cabinet knob in the same code and the two will read as a set. Emtek publishes its knobset and leverset finish and dimension data in a technical specifications sheet, which is where to confirm what your door hardware was originally specified in.

The Emtek Egg cabinet knob is a brass knob in a traditional style. Delaney Hardware makes a Solid Brass Cabinet Knob in its Cabinet Knobs series that keeps the solid brass construction in a different profile. For a heavier round form, the Deltana KRB175 is a solid brass round knob with a groove at 1-3/4 inch diameter. Both are brass knobs, so they take the same single mounting screw approach the Egg uses and sit alongside brass hardware already in the room.

They are not the same part. The Schaub 10030 is a 1 inch Cafe Modern oval slot cabinet knob with 7/8 inch center to center; the Schaub 10040 is a 1 inch Cafe Modern oval knob with 7/8 inch center to center. The 10030 carries a slot detail the 10040 does not. Both are 1 inch, matching the smallest size of the Emtek Egg cabinet knob, but the Egg is a traditional American Classic form rather than a Cafe Modern one, so ordering either Schaub in place of the Egg changes the look on the door face.

The Emtek Egg cabinet knob steps from 1 inch to 1-1/4 inch to 1-3/4 inch. If 1-1/4 inch is undersized for a wide drawer face, the Schaub 131 is a 1-1/2 inch round Artifex cabinet knob, and the Deltana KRB175 is a 1-3/4 inch diameter solid brass round knob with a groove. The Schaub 131 fills the gap between the Egg's 1-1/4 inch and 1-3/4 inch sizes; the Deltana matches the Egg's largest diameter outright.

Several round knobs get grouped with the Emtek Egg but do not read the same. The Orca Hardware CK-18032 is a Mission round cabinet knob from the 18-Mission Collection and the Orca CK-19032 is a Whistler cabinet knob from the 19-Whistler Collection - both are cabinet knobs, but Mission and Whistler are distinct design families from the Egg's American Classic theme. The Schaub 131 round Artifex knob at 1-1/2 inch is round rather than egg-shaped. If you are matching existing Egg knobs on adjacent cabinets, order the Egg itself; these are alternates, not matches.

The part number changes with size, not just finish. Oil Rubbed Bronze runs SPC86016US10B in 1-1/4 inch and SPC86124US10B in 1-3/4 inch. The pattern holds across the line: the 1-1/4 inch is the SPC86016 series (SPC86016US14 polished nickel, SPC86016US15 satin nickel, SPC86016US19 flat black, SPC86016US26 polished chrome, SPC86016US7 French antique), and the 1 inch French antique is SPC86015US7. Give your supplier the size and the US finish code together and you will get the right one.

It is styled traditional, in the American Classic vein, and the egg profile is a period shape rather than a contemporary one. It sits well with shaker and inset cabinetry, especially in Unlacquered Brass or French Antique where the finish ages into the look. If the millwork is flat-slab modern, a Schaub 1200 Modo at 16 mm or the Cafe Modern Oval is closer to the right vocabulary.

The Emtek Egg cabinet knob is a residential brass knob offered in nine finishes and three sizes, which is more selection than a straight turnover usually needs. The Delaney Hardware Solid Brass Cabinet Knob keeps solid brass construction in a single cabinet knob line, and the Orca Hardware CK-18032 Mission round cabinet knob is a plain round knob. Either covers a unit where the requirement is a durable knob on every door rather than a specific finish match across a fleet.

The smallest Emtek Egg cabinet knob is 1 inch. The Schaub 1200 Modo cabinet knob is specified at 16 mm, so it is the small-scale option when the cabinet program is drawn in metric or when a 1 inch knob is too large for a narrow stile or a small door. It is a Modo-series knob, a different design family from the Egg.