Emtek Old Town Glass Cabinet Knob, Schaub Collection

Two diameters are offered on the Old Town glass knob: 1 inch and 1-1/4 inch. Both are the same design, just scaled. The 1 inch reads better on small upper doors and narrow drawer fronts, and the 1-1/4 inch gives more to grip on wide drawer banks and pantry doors. Plenty of kitchens mix the two, small on doors and large on drawers, since the finish and glass match across both sizes.

A mounting screw ships with each Old Town glass knob, so nothing extra is needed for a standard cabinet front. If your doors or drawer fronts are thicker than usual (applied moulding, a thick slab front, or a false front with a backer), the included screw may come up short and you will want longer 8-32 machine screws on hand before install day.

Ten finishes across the Old Town glass knob: Polished Brass Lifetime (US3), Unlacquered Brass (US3NL), Satin Brass (US4), French Antique (US7), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Nickel (US14), Satin Nickel (US15), Pewter (US15A), Flat Black (US19), and Polished Chrome (US26). Worth knowing before you order: Unlacquered Brass is meant to patina and darken with handling, while Polished Brass Lifetime is a coated finish that holds its color. If you are matching a fleet of units or a whole kitchen, pick one and stay with it, since those two look alike on day one and nothing alike a year in.

Emtek classes the Old Town glass knob as residential hardware. Single-family, condo, and higher-end multi-family unit interiors are where it belongs. For a heavily used commercial casework opening, a break room, a nurse station, or a school millwork run, a solid metal knob takes abuse better than glass. The Deltana KRB175 heavy-duty round knob in solid brass is one to look at instead.

The Old Town is a knob, single screw through one hole, not a two-hole pull. If your drawer fronts are already bored on centers for a pull, a single knob will not cover those holes and you would be patching and re-drilling. Where you have existing center-to-center boring and want to keep it, a two-hole cabinet pull is the part to order. Mixing knobs on doors with pulls on drawers is standard practice and the finishes list here covers the common ones so a match is straightforward.

The Old Town knob is a brass knob with a glass style face, so if the glass element is the part you want to drop, the Delaney Solid Brass Cabinet Knob is the straight material swap: solid brass, no glass. Orca Hardware CK-18032 Mission Round Cabinet Knob and Orca Hardware CK-19032 Whistler Cabinet Knob are the other round metal knobs to look at. All three mount the same way any single-hole cabinet knob does, so a cabinet already drilled for the Old Town knob takes them without new boring.

The Old Town knob is offered in 1 inch and 1-1/4 inch diameters. For a bigger grip on a wide drawer front, the Schaub 131 Round Artifex Cabinet Knob is 1-1/2 inch round, and the Deltana KRB175 Round Knob with Groove is 1-3/4 inch diameter in solid brass and is described as heavy-duty. Both are round single-knob designs, so the visual scale changes but the hole pattern does not.

Watch the Schaub 10030 Cafe Modern Oval Slot Cabinet Knob and the Schaub 10040 Cafe Modern Oval Cabinet Knob. Both are 1 inch, which matches the smaller Old Town size, but both are listed with 7/8 inch center to center, meaning they mount on two holes rather than the single mounting screw the Old Town knob uses. Ordering either as a drop-in for an existing Old Town knob means drilling a second hole in every door and drawer front.

The Old Town knob is designated residential. Where the cabinet run takes heavy daily use, the Deltana KRB175 Round Knob with Groove is described as heavy-duty solid brass at 1-3/4 inch diameter, and the Delaney Solid Brass Cabinet Knob is a solid brass knob with no glass component to chip. Both are single-hole knobs, so standardizing a facility on one of them across many doors does not change the boring.

Style and material are the split. The Old Town is a glass knob on a brass base in a traditional look. The Schaub 131 Artifex is a 1-1/2 inch round metal knob, larger than either Old Town size, and the Schaub 10040 Cafe is a 1 inch modern oval. If you want the period glass look, the Old Town is the one. If you want a plain metal profile, or a bigger 1-1/2 inch grip than the Old Town offers, the Schaub knobs cover that.

Old Town glass knob part numbers run SPC860 plus a size digit plus the finish code. The 1 inch is SPC86010 (for example SPC86010US15 in Satin Nickel), and the 1-1/4 inch is SPC86011 (SPC86011US15). Read the finish code off an existing knob's packaging or invoice and match the whole string, since the only difference between a US14 Polished Nickel and a US15 Satin Nickel on a wall of cabinets is one you will see immediately.

Glass can chip on a high-traffic opening or a job where tools and carts go past. For a metal round knob instead, the Deltana KRB175 is a 1-3/4 inch solid brass round knob with a groove detail, noticeably larger than the Old Town's 1 inch and 1-1/4 inch. The Orca CK-18032 Mission round knob and the Delaney solid brass cabinet knob are other metal round options.

Three round designs sit in that range. Orca Hardware CK-18032 is the Mission Round Cabinet Knob from the 18-Mission Collection, Orca Hardware CK-19032 is the Whistler Cabinet Knob from the 19-Whistler Collection, and Schaub 131 is the 1-1/2 inch Round Artifex Cabinet Knob. Each is a round metal knob rather than the glass-and-brass Old Town treatment, which reads quieter on a long run of doors.

Yes, and it is a common way to split a kitchen. The Old Town knob comes in 1 inch and 1-1/4 inch, so pairing the 1 inch on uppers with a larger knob such as the Schaub 131 at 1-1/2 inch round or the Deltana KRB175 at 1-3/4 inch diameter on base drawers keeps the grip scaled to the door. All are single-hole knobs, so one boring layout covers the whole run.

No wiring, no battery, no electronics. The Old Town is a mechanical glass knob on a brass base that mounts with the single screw in the box. Install is bore, screw, done.