Emtek Freestone Cabinet Pull, Schaub Collection

The Freestone pull is offered in 3-1/2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 12 inch center-to-center. Measure hole to hole on your existing pull, center of one screw to center of the other, and match that number. The longer 8, 10 and 12 inch sizes are the ones that suit tall drawer banks and appliance-style fronts; the 3-1/2 and 4 inch sizes are the usual door and small drawer choices. Boring is not adjustable, so the CTC has to match the drilling in the front unless you are drilling new.

Projection is 1-7/8 inches. That is the clearance from the face of the door or drawer front to the back of the grip, and it decides whether the pull clears an adjacent appliance handle, a wall return, or a corner cabinet swing. In a tight galley run or on a door next to a wall, check 1-7/8 inches against the gap before you commit to it.

Freestone is made in Flat Black (US19), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Chrome (US26), Polished Nickel (US14), Satin Brass (US4) and Satin Nickel (US15). Those are the standard US finish codes, so if your door levers or bath hardware are specified as, say, US15, the pull carries the same code and will read as a set. Oil Rubbed Bronze is a living finish and will shift with handling over time, which matters on a kitchen that gets daily use.

All three are brass modern pulls, and the difference is mostly form and how much size range you get. Freestone spans 3-1/2 through 12 inch center-to-center with a 1-7/8 inch projection, so one style can run a whole kitchen from small doors to tall drawer stacks. The Deltana SBP35 Modern Square Bar Pull is a single 3-1/2 inch solid brass square bar. Omnia's 1968 is a forged solid brass pull at 4 inch center-to-center, and the 1969 and 1971 sit closer to the face at 1-3/16 inch projection, with the 1970 at 1-1/4 inch. If clearance is tight next to an appliance or a wall, those shallower Omnia projections buy you room the 1-7/8 inch Freestone does not.

Likely yes. At 1-7/8 inches of projection the Freestone grip sits well off the face, and in a pinch point (a door beside a wall return, a corner cabinet, or a drawer under a countertop overhang) that is where knuckles and door swings collide. For those spots an edge pull is the usual fix, mounted on the door or drawer edge with no face projection at all. Schaub makes the Sabre edge pull in 3, 4 and 5 inch center-to-center. Use the Freestone on the open runs and the edge pull where clearance is tight.

Not on the same holes. Freestone center-to-center sizes are imperial: 3-1/2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 12 inches. 96mm falls between 3-1/2 and 4 inches, so neither will land on existing 96mm drilling. Either redrill the fronts, or stay metric with a pull offered in 96mm such as the Trimco 562 Series, which lists 3-1/2 inch, 4 inch and 96mm center-to-center options.

The Deltana SBP35 Modern Square Bar Pull is the nearest equivalent at that spacing. It is a 3-1/2 inch heavy-duty solid brass square bar pull, matching the Freestone's brass construction and one of the Freestone's center-to-center sizes. The Freestone runs 3-1/2 inch through 12 inch center-to-center, so the Deltana covers the short end of that range only; for 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 or 12 inch spacing you stay with the Freestone. The Deltana is a square bar profile, while the Freestone is an Urban Modern brass pull with a 1-7/8 inch projection, so the two read differently on a door face even at identical hole spacing.

The Freestone projects 1-7/8 inch off the face, which is what to check against a tight return. Omnia offers forged solid brass modern pulls at shallower projections: the 1969 and the 1971 are both 1-3/16 inch projection, and the 1970 is 1-1/4 inch projection. All three are forged solid brass like the Freestone, so the material and the modern look carry over while you gain roughly a half inch to three quarters of an inch of clearance at the face. Confirm the center-to-center you need against each Omnia series before ordering, since the pull must land on the existing hole spacing.

The Omnia 1968/102 is a modern cabinet pull in forged solid brass with 4 inch center-to-center spacing, so it drops onto the same hole pattern as the 4 inch Freestone. Both are brass modern pulls. The Freestone is offered across a wider spacing range, 3-1/2 inch through 12 inch center-to-center, and in Flat Black (US19), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Chrome (US26), Polished Nickel (US14), Satin Brass (US4) and Satin Nickel (US15), so if a single kitchen needs several spacings in one finish family the Freestone covers them from one series.

No. The Schaub 10010, 10011 and 10012 are edge pulls, at 3 inch, 4 inch and 5 inch center-to-center respectively. An edge pull mounts at the edge of a door or drawer front rather than as a face-mounted bar, so it does not replace a face-mounted cabinet pull like the Freestone even where the center-to-center numbers overlap. If the drilled holes are on the face of the drawer front, the Freestone family covers 3-1/2 inch through 12 inch center-to-center; reserve the Sabre edge pulls for edge-mount conditions.

Yes. The Trimco 553 Series drawer pull is a 3 inch center-to-center pull, which sits just below the Freestone's shortest spacing. The Trimco 562 Series covers 3-1/2 inch, 4 inch and 96mm center-to-center, so it overlaps the Freestone at 3-1/2 inch and 4 inch and adds the metric 96mm option for cabinetry drilled to metric centers. The Freestone continues up through 5, 6, 8, 10 and 12 inch, so a job with mixed drawer widths can run Trimco on the narrow fronts and Freestone on the wide ones, or stay on Freestone throughout from 3-1/2 inch up.

Freestone is residential cabinet hardware. For apartment turns, model units, spec homes and custom kitchens it is the right category. If you are specifying for a school, hospital or high-traffic institutional casework, look at hardware sold for commercial duty instead. For a property manager standardizing across a multi-family portfolio, a residential pull is normally fine on unit cabinetry but not on public-area millwork.

Freestone goes up to 12 inch center-to-center, which is the range people use on integrated appliance panels and tall drawer fronts, and it is brass. It is sold as a cabinet pull rather than as an appliance pull, so if you want hardware specifically built and sized for that duty, the Schaub 79-8 Steamworks 8 inch is catalogued as an appliance pull. On a panel-ready fridge, confirm the panel's existing drilling matches whichever center-to-center you order.

Two things: center-to-center and finish. Sizes run 3-1/2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 12 inches, and finishes are Flat Black (US19), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Chrome (US26), Polished Nickel (US14), Satin Brass (US4) and Satin Nickel (US15). Pulls are sold individually, so count your doors and drawers rather than ordering by cabinet. A common kitchen order is one size for doors and a longer one for the drawer bank, both in the same finish.

Pulls give you a two-screw fixing and a grip you can hook a finger or a whole hand through, which is why they win on drawers, heavy doors, and anywhere wet or gloved hands are in play. Knobs use a single screw, cost less to install, and read more traditional. The Freestone is a pull and covers 3-1/2 through 12 inch center-to-center. If you want knobs on the upper doors and pulls on the drawers, a common split, Orca Hardware's Bachelor Collection round knob is 1-1/4 inch diameter and the Blackcomb square knob is 25mm.

A one-hole door takes a knob, not a two-hole pull. Orca Hardware's Bachelor Collection CK-15030 is a round cabinet knob at 1-1/4 inch diameter and the CK-16030 is a round ring cabinet knob at the same 1-1/4 inch diameter; the Blackcomb CK-17025 is a square cabinet knob at 25mm diameter. All three are cabinet knobs. The Freestone is a cabinet pull mounted on center-to-center spacings from 3-1/2 inch to 12 inch, so it needs two holes at a matched spacing. A common approach is knobs on the doors and Freestone pulls on the drawers.

Material and form. The Orca CK-12001 is a steel T-pull bar with a 2 inch bar width, finished satin nickel. The Freestone is brass and is offered in Satin Nickel (US15) among its finishes, so the two can be specified to the same finish name while the underlying substrate differs. Where a job is standardizing on solid brass hardware throughout, the Freestone is the brass option; the Orca is the steel bar-pull alternative. Confirm the hole spacing separately, since the Freestone is ordered by center-to-center from 3-1/2 inch to 12 inch.

No. Freestone is straight mechanical cabinet hardware, non-electronic, mounted with through-bolted screws from behind the door or drawer front. No wiring, no battery, nothing to coordinate with an electrician.

Emtek styles Freestone as Urban Modern with a contemporary theme, so it sits comfortably in a modern or transitional kitchen. Finish does most of the work on style: Flat Black and Satin Brass read contemporary, while Oil Rubbed Bronze and Polished Nickel pull it toward transitional. The Schaub Collection sizing range means the same profile carries across doors and drawers without mixing families.

Two forged solid brass modern pulls fit that use. The Omnia 1968/102 is fixed at 4 inch center-to-center, and the Deltana SBP35 is a 3-1/2 inch heavy-duty solid brass square bar pull. Both land in the short end of the Freestone's own 3-1/2 inch to 12 inch range, so any of the three can serve a small vanity drawer. Staying on the Freestone keeps a single Urban Modern brass series across the vanity and the adjacent cabinetry if the larger fronts need 6 inch or 8 inch spacing.