Emtek Orbit Cabinet Pull, Schaub Collection

The Orbit bar pull is made in five center-to-center spacings: 3 inch, 3-1/2 inch, 4 inch, 6 inch and 10 inch. Measure your existing holes center of hole to center of hole; if the number matches one of those five, the pull drops onto the existing drilling with no new holes. If it lands anywhere between, you are either re-drilling the front or covering the old holes with a backplate. Worth knowing before you order a mixed kitchen: every one of the five spacings is offered in all seven finishes, so a drawer that needs 3 inch and a pantry door that needs 10 inch can still carry the same finish.

No, the Orbit will not cover 96mm drilling. Its spacings are inch based only: 3, 3-1/2, 4, 6 and 10 inch center to center, and none of those land on 96mm, which is the usual drilling on European-built boxes and frameless cabinetry. Trimco's 562 Series drawer pulls list a 96mm center-to-center option alongside 3-1/2 inch and 4 inch, so that is the one to look at if you are matching metric drilling rather than re-boring the fronts.

The Deltana SBP35 is the closest match at that spacing: a heavy-duty solid brass bar pull built to 3-1/2 inch center to center, so it lands on the same two-hole bore as the 3-1/2 inch Orbit. The shapes differ - the SBP35 is a modern square bar, while the Orbit is a contemporary brass pull. Both are brass, so a refinish or a mixed run across one kitchen behaves the same way on either.

The Omnia 1968/102 from the 1968 Cabinet Pulls Series is a modern cabinet pull in forged solid brass built to 4 inch center-to-center spacing, which is the same bore the 4 inch Orbit uses. Where the Orbit covers 4 inch as one size within a run that also includes 3 inch, 3-1/2 inch, 6 inch and 10 inch, the 1968/102 is the 4 inch spacing on its own. Forged solid brass and the Orbit's brass construction both take the same fastener through a standard drawer front.

No - the center-to-center number matches but the part does not. The Schaub 10010 at 3 inch center to center, the 10011 at 4 inch and the 10012 at 5 inch are edge pulls, a different function from a face-mounted cabinet bar pull like the Orbit, which is a cabinet pull in the same 3 inch and 4 inch spacings. Ordering a Sabre against an Orbit line item because the spacing lines up gets you the wrong style of hardware on the drawer front.

Sizing the Orbit by opening: the 3 inch and 3-1/2 inch work on small drawers and door stiles, 4 inch is the workhorse for standard base drawers and cabinet doors, and the 6 inch and 10 inch are for wide banks of drawers, appliance-panel fronts and full-height pantry doors where a short pull looks lost and gives you nothing to grab. The common trade rule of thumb is a pull roughly a third the width of the drawer front. Ten inch is the longest center-to-center the Orbit is made in.

Yes, and that is the reason to spec it for a whole-house or whole-kitchen run. Seven finishes are offered: Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Nickel (US14), Satin Nickel (US15), Flat Black (US19), Polished Chrome (US26), Unlacquered Brass (US3NL) and Satin Brass (US4). Each one is available in all five center-to-center lengths, 3 through 10 inch, so the 3 inch on the spice drawer and the 10 inch on the pantry are the same finish out of the same production, not a near match from two families.

Unlacquered Brass (US3NL) is a living finish. It is bare brass with no clear coat over it, so it oxidizes with handling and darkens unevenly, fastest where hands touch it. Some people buy it for exactly that. If you want the brass tone but not the changing appearance, Satin Brass (US4) is the other brass-tone finish the Orbit is offered in. One thing to plan for on a remodel: a bare brass pull will not stay matched to a lacquered brass faucet or light fixture, and it will not go back to bright without polishing.

Mounting screws ship with each Orbit pull, so a standard front needs nothing else on the order. They mount from the back of the door or drawer face through the existing bores. The one case where you will want to buy screws is a thick applied front, a false front over a drawer box, or a slab with an added panel, where the supplied length runs out; cabinet pulls use 8-32 machine screws, so a longer 8-32 in the right length is a stock item and not a special part.

The Orbit is classed as residential hardware. It is solid brass and it will hold up in a house or a unit, but it is not the pull to standardize on for a heavy-traffic commercial casework package. Where you need something built for that duty, Deltana's SBP35 Modern Square Bar Pull is a heavy-duty solid brass bar pull at 3-1/2 inch center to center. For turnovers in a residential portfolio, the Orbit's advantage is that the same seven finishes run across every size, so one finish covers every unit.

Trimco covers the same holes from its commercial drawer pull lines: the 553 Series is a 3 inch center-to-center drawer pull, and the 562 Series is offered in 3-1/2 inch, 4 inch and 96mm center to center. Between the two, Trimco reaches every spacing the Emtek Orbit offers below 6 inch - 3 inch, 3-1/2 inch and 4 inch - so the existing bore is reusable either way. The Orbit is a residential brass pull, while the Trimco pulls are drawer pulls out of the commercial catalog, which is the practical difference when you are standardizing a unit turn.

It is not a hole-for-hole swap. The Orbit is a cabinet pull ordered by center-to-center spacing - 3 inch, 3-1/2 inch, 4 inch, 6 inch and 10 inch - so it uses two bores at a fixed spacing. The Orca Hardware CK-15030 round knob and CK-16030 round ring knob, both 1-1/4 inch diameter, and the CK-17025 square knob at 25mm diameter are cabinet knobs, which means the existing pull bores get abandoned and the front gets a new single hole. Where these do work well is alongside the Orbit: knobs on the doors, Orbit pulls on the drawers.

The Schaub 79-8 Steamworks is an 8 inch pull carried as an appliance pull, which is the part built for that duty. The Emtek Orbit runs long as well - 6 inch and 10 inch center to center are both offered in brass - so if you want the appliance panel and the surrounding cabinetry reading as one family, the 10 inch Orbit is the long size in the same series as the 3 inch, 3-1/2 inch and 4 inch pulls on the drawers.

Brass, both the substrate and the material of record, in all seven finishes offered. The finish names are plating and coating designations over that brass body, not the material itself, so an Oil Rubbed Bronze Orbit and a Polished Chrome Orbit are the same brass casting underneath. If the job calls for a steel bar pull instead, Orca Hardware's CK-12001 T-Pull Bar is steel with a 2 inch bar width in satin nickel.

The Orbit is a face-mounted bar pull fixed with two screws from behind the front, so it mounts the same way on inset doors as on overlay ones, as long as the door face is where you want the pull to sit and the pull clears the face frame when the door swings. It will not solve a flush or pocketed application where nothing can project from the face. For that, Schaub's Sabre edge pulls are the type to use: the 10010 at 3 inch, the 10011 at 4 inch and the 10012 at 5 inch center to center.

Depends on what is already drilled. The Orbit is a two-hole bar pull in every size it is made in, the smallest being 3 inch center to center, so it needs a pair of bores. A knob takes one hole, which means a knob cannot cover a front already drilled for a pull, and swapping knobs to Orbit pulls means adding a second hole to every door. If knobs are what you want on the uppers, Orca Hardware's Bachelor Collection round knob and round ring knob are both 1-1/4 inch diameter, and the Blackcomb square knob is 25mm.

Satin nickel (US15) Orbit pulls run on sequential numbers by length: SPC86257US15 is the 3-1/2 inch, SPC86258US15 the 4 inch, SPC86259US15 the 6 inch and SPC86260US15 the 10 inch. Other finishes carry the same base number with the finish code swapped, so the 6 inch in Oil Rubbed Bronze is SPC86259US10B and in Flat Black SPC86259US19. Quote the number rather than the description if you are adding to a job already installed, since size and finish are the only things that separate them.

The Orca Hardware CK-12001 is a T-pull bar in steel with a 2 inch bar width, finished satin nickel. The Emtek Orbit is a brass pull that also comes in Satin Nickel (US15) across its size run, so the visible finish reads the same way on the front and the choice comes down to the substrate under it - steel on the CK-12001, brass on the Orbit - and the T-bar profile versus the Orbit's contemporary shape.