Schaub 530 1-1/4" Menlo Park Square Cabinet Knob

The Menlo Park 530 knob threads 8/32, which is the standard machine screw size for cabinet knobs, so it drops onto existing 8/32 holes with no drilling. Thicker drawer fronts or slab doors with an applied panel may need a longer 8/32 screw than a stock one, but the thread itself is unchanged, so any 8/32 cabinet screw works.

The 530 has a 3/4 inch base where it meets the wood, so it covers a single center hole and a small ring of wear around it. Anything wider than 3/4 inch, including a finish shadow from a larger-footed knob, will still show. It's a single-hole knob, so it won't cover a two-hole pull pattern.

Emtek sells the Schaub Collection under its own SELECT program, and the Emtek 8665 Select cabinet knob is the direct route to Schaub styling on an Emtek order. One difference matters when you spec it: the Emtek 8665 is catalogued as a cabinet knob/pull, so the SELECT program covers both knob and pull formats, while the Schaub 530 is strictly a cabinet knob at 1-1/4 inch diameter with a 1 inch projection and a 3/4 inch base. If you are matching an existing run of Menlo Park square knobs, the 530 is the exact part; if you are opening a new kitchen or millwork package on Emtek, the 8665 gets you into the same design family.

The Schaub 530 Menlo Park knob is zinc base material. If the spec calls for solid brass, two peers answer it directly: the Delaney solid brass cabinet knob, and the Deltana KRB175 round knob with groove, a heavy-duty solid brass knob at 1-3/4 inch diameter. Note the size step - the Deltana KRB175 at 1-3/4 inch is a half inch larger across than the 1-1/4 inch Menlo Park square, which reads very differently on a narrow drawer face or a small door stile. For a property manager standardizing across a building, that diameter change is the thing to check against existing cabinet fronts before ordering.

One inch of projection, measured from the face of the door to the front of the knob. That is worth checking in a galley kitchen or a tight hallway where a cabinet door swings into a walkway, and against any adjacent appliance handle that could clash. The knob face itself is 1-1/4 inch across.

Seven finishes: Satin Nickel, Polished Chrome, Ancient Bronze, Brushed Nickel, Matte Black, Polished Nickel, and Signature Satin Brass. Both satin and brushed nickel are offered as separate finishes, and both polished nickel and polished chrome, so match the finish code on the hardware already installed rather than the description, since those pairs read close in a photo but not on the door.

Zinc is the base material on the 530, finished over the top. If a spec calls for solid brass, the Deltana KRB175 round knob with groove is solid brass, and Delaney's cabinet knob is solid brass as well. Both are round rather than square, so they won't carry a Menlo Park look through a kitchen.

At 1-1/4 inch across the square face, the 530 gives a full finger grip and works on doors and most drawers. On wide, heavily loaded drawers, a pull spanning more of the front is usually easier to open square, so a lot of kitchens run 530 knobs on the doors and pulls on the wide drawers. If a bigger knob is what you're after, the Deltana KRB175 is 1-3/4 inch diameter.

Yes, and it's a reasonable fleet choice: one 8/32 thread, one 1-1/4 inch face, one 3/4 inch base, seven finishes to pick from, so every unit installs the same way and you only carry one screw size. Order the same finish code across the job, since Satin Nickel and Brushed Nickel are separate finishes here and mixing them across units shows.

The Menlo Park 530 is a square-profile transitional knob. If the cabinetry wants a round face instead, the Orca Hardware CK-18032 Mission round cabinet knob and the Orca Hardware CK-19032 Whistler cabinet knob are both cabinet knobs from separate collections - 18-Mission and 19-Whistler respectively. The Deltana KRB175 is another round option, a heavy-duty solid brass round knob with a groove detail. All are knobs rather than pulls, so the mounting approach on the door or drawer front stays a single-hole layout; only the face profile and collection styling change.

The Schaub 530 Menlo Park knob uses an 8/32 thread screw, which is the standard cabinet knob thread, and mounts on a single hole. Peer knobs including the Orca CK-18032 Mission, the Orca CK-19032 Whistler, and the Deltana KRB175 are all single-knob cabinet mounting parts, so a swap is a face-profile and diameter decision more than a boring decision. Where it gets you is screw length and footprint: the Deltana KRB175 at 1-3/4 inch diameter covers a larger area of the door face than the 1-1/4 inch Menlo Park, which can expose or hide wear marks from the previous hardware on a refit.

The Emtek Astoria glass cabinet knob is the glass-faced option, part of the Schaub Collection in the Astoria series and catalogued as a cabinet knob/pull. It is a different material story from the Schaub 530 Menlo Park, which is zinc base material in a transitional square profile with seven finishes including Satin Nickel, Polished Chrome, Matte Black and Signature Satin Brass. For high-traffic multi-family or hospitality cabinetry, that material difference is the decision point - glass and metal wear and clean differently under heavy use.

Menlo Park is Schaub's transitional collection, and the 530 is the square knob in it. Square face, square base, no ornament, which is what puts it with shaker and flat-panel doors rather than with a raised-panel traditional kitchen. If the job wants a rounder or period look instead, Orca's CK-18032 Mission and CK-19032 Whistler are round cabinet knobs, and Emtek's Art Deco and Astoria glass knobs are the decorative direction.

Emtek sells the Schaub collection under its own SELECT line and as named Schaub-collection knobs like Allerton, Art Deco, and Astoria Glass, so the two brands sit in the same program. On a practical level any of them mounts the same way on a standard cabinet bore. Match by finish name and by shape rather than assuming a cross-brand finish is identical.

No backplate is part of the 530. It mounts through a single bore with an 8/32 machine screw driven from inside the door or drawer box, and the knob's own 3/4 inch base sits flat against the face. If the existing hole is oversized or the finish under the old knob is chipped, a separate rosette or backplate is the fix, not this knob.