Emtek Old Town Glass Wardrobe Knob

It's a surface mount knob, so it fastens through a single bored hole from the back of the door or drawer front with a machine screw. Standard cabinet knob prep, no back plate required and no center to center spacing to worry about the way you would with a pull. Check your door front thickness against the screw you have on hand, since thicker wardrobe fronts sometimes need a longer screw than the one packed with a knob.

The Emtek Old Town glass wardrobe knob is built in a 1 inch size. For a bigger grip on tall wardrobe or pantry doors, the Deltana KRB175 is a 1-3/4 inch diameter solid brass round knob with a groove and is described as heavy-duty, and the Schaub 131 Artifex round knob is 1-1/2 inch diameter in Britannium. Both give you noticeably more diameter to grab than the 1 inch Old Town.

The Emtek Old Town glass wardrobe knob is a surface mount knob. If your door fronts are drilled for a center-to-center spread, the Schaub 10030 Cafe and Schaub 10040 Cafe are both 1 inch diameter solid brass knobs listed with 7/8 inch center to center, which covers a two-hole pattern at the same face diameter.

Ten finishes: 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), Satin Brass (US4), and French Antique (US7). That finish is on the brass base the glass sits on, so match it to the hinges and pulls already on the run of cabinets. Unlacquered Brass has no coating and will patina over time, while Polished Brass Lifetime is the one that stays bright.

Glass with a brass base. The visible knob is glass, and it's set on a solid brass foot that carries the finish and the threaded connection to the door. Brass is the listed substrate, which is what you want at the screw joint on a door that gets pulled every day.

It's classified residential. For apartments, model units, and custom homes it's the right category of hardware. For a hotel corridor casework package or a school millwork spec where the buyer wants a heavier all-metal knob, a solid brass option like the Deltana KRB175 heavy-duty round knob or the Delaney solid brass cabinet knob is the more usual pick, since glass is the part that will chip if it gets hit.

It belongs to Emtek's Glass and Porcelain collection, so it's the cabinet-scale companion to that family. The finish codes are Emtek's standard door hardware codes (US10B, US14, US15, US15A, US19, US26, US3, US3NL, US4, US7), which is what lets a knob on a wardrobe read the same as the door hardware down the hall in the same finish.

At the same 1 inch diameter, Schaub's Cafe collection gives you two solid brass options: the 10030 modern oval slot knob and the 10040 modern oval knob, both 1 inch with 7/8 inch center to center. Orca's CK-18032 Mission and CK-19032 Whistler are round cabinet knobs in a more traditional and transitional look respectively. All of those are all-metal, so they take a knock better than a glass face.

The Emtek Old Town glass wardrobe knob is a residential-rated knob with a glass face. Where you want a denser metal knob for heavier handling, the Deltana KRB175 is a heavy-duty solid brass round knob at 1-3/4 inch diameter, and the Delaney 43701x is a solid brass cabinet knob. Both are solid brass bodies with no glass component to chip.

They are not the same class of part. The Emtek Old Town wardrobe knob uses glass with a brass base. The Schaub 1200 Modo is a 16 mm cabinet knob built in zinc and aluminum, so it is a smaller-diameter knob in a different material family. If the specification calls for a brass-based knob, the 1200 will not match it.

The Old Town knob sits in Emtek's Glass and Porcelain collection, which reads traditional and decorative. For a craftsman or mission door front, the Orca Hardware CK-18032 Mission round cabinet knob comes from an 18-Mission collection, and the Orca CK-19032 Whistler cabinet knob is a rustic-leaning alternative. Both are metal-faced cabinet knobs rather than glass.

SPC86028US10B. The number runs SPC86028 plus the finish code, so Polished Nickel is SPC86028US14, Satin Nickel SPC86028US15, Pewter SPC86028US15A, Polished Chrome SPC86028US26, and French Antique SPC86028US7. Useful if you're reordering to match knobs already hung on a job.