Schaub 656 Fair Isle with Organic Shell Inlays 3/4" Center to Center Cabinet Pull

The 656 Fair Isle pull mounts with 8/32 machine screws supplied at 1 inch. That length suits standard 3/4 inch cabinet doors and drawer fronts with room for the pull's own base. If you are going through a thicker slab or a doubled applied front, you will need longer 8/32 screws, since the thread is the common 8-32 cabinet hardware size and longer replacements are easy to source.

Hole spacing is 3/4 inch center to center, with an overall length of 2-1/4 inches. That is a small-format spacing used on jewelry drawers, glass front cabinet doors, and narrow rails, not the 3 inch or 96mm spacing most kitchen drawer pulls use. It drops straight into an existing 3/4 inch pair of holes. If your current pull is on 3 inch centers, the 656 will not cover or reach those holes and you would be redrilling the front.

At 2-1/4 inches overall on 3/4 inch centers, the 656 Fair Isle is a small decorative pull. It suits cabinet doors, small vanity drawers, and glass front or display cabinetry. For wide, heavy, loaded kitchen drawers you want a longer bar on wider centers so the load spreads over two screws further apart, something like the Omnia 1968/102 at 4 inch center to center, the Trimco 553 at 3 inch, or the Trimco 562 in 3-1/2 inch, 4 inch, and 96mm. Many designers mix them: the small Schaub on doors, a long bar on the deep drawers.

Solid brass base material, with organic shell inlay set into the face. Solid brass takes the daily pull cycle on a cabinet without the finish wearing through to a different-colored substrate the way plated zinc does. The shell inlay is a natural material, so expect slight variation in figure between pieces, which matters if you are ordering a run of them for one kitchen and want them to look like a set.

The Fair Isle is a decorative inlay pull, so the alternatives split by style. For a clean modern line in the same solid brass, the Omnia 1970 has a 1-1/4 inch projection matching the Schaub's standoff, and the Omnia 1969 and 1971 sit slightly tighter at 1-3/16 inch. The Deltana SBP35 is a heavy-duty solid brass square bar at 3-1/2 inches. If you want something in the same design family as the Schaub but from the Emtek line, the Emtek 8405 Select, Alexander, Art Deco, and Bar pulls are all Schaub collection pieces.

Judge it on the inlay, not the brass. The body is solid brass and will take the cycles, but Fair Isle sets a natural shell inlay into the face, and a natural inlay in a turnover unit or a commercial washroom is a wear and replacement item, not a fit-and-forget one. For multi-family or hospitality where every unit has to match years from now, a plain solid metal pull is the safer standard, the Deltana SBP35 solid brass bar or the Orca CK-12001 steel T-pull bar in satin nickel. Keep the Fair Isle for owner-occupied kitchens, baths, and display cabinetry.

The Schaub 656 Fair Isle projects 1-1/4 inch off the face. The Omnia 1970 is a forged solid brass pull at the same 1-1/4 inch projection. The Omnia 1969 and Omnia 1971 are both forged solid brass at 1-3/16 inch projection, a sixteenth shallower. Mixing across a run of doors, the 1970 keeps the standoff identical and the 1969 and 1971 sit slightly closer to the face.

The Emtek Alexander, Art Deco, Bar, and 8405 SELECT cabinet pulls are all listed as Schaub Collection pieces, each in its own series, and each is catalogued as a cabinet knob or pull. The Schaub 656 belongs to the Fair Isle collection in the Symphony Inlays style, built in solid brass with organic shell inlays. The Emtek Schaub Collection series carry their own design families rather than the Fair Isle inlay treatment.

For heavier duty, the Deltana SBP35 is a modern square bar pull at 3-1/2 inch, described as heavy-duty solid brass, and the Orca Hardware CK-12001 T-pull bar is a 2 inch bar width steel pull in satin nickel. The Schaub 656 Fair Isle is solid brass with organic shell inlays in the Symphony Inlays style, a decorative face treatment; the Deltana and Orca bars present a plain metal grip with nothing inlaid to chip.

Two finishes: Polished Brass and Polished Nickel. Both are warm-to-cool opposites, so pick against the rest of the room's metal rather than the cabinet color. The pull carries a white mother of pearl shell inlay, which reads bright against either finish.

Yes, and it is the usual approach with a pull this small. At 2-1/4 inches overall the 656 reads close to knob scale, so pairing it with round knobs on the doors keeps proportions consistent. Orca's Bachelor Collection round knob and round ring knob are both 1-1/4 inch diameter, and the Blackcomb square knob is 25mm, all in that same small-scale range. Match your finish choice across both, Polished Brass or Polished Nickel on the Schaub side.

No. The 656 ships with 8/32 by 1 inch machine screws, which is what the two-hole 3/4 inch center to center mounting takes. The only case where you buy anything extra is a front thicker than a standard 3/4 inch panel, where you would swap in a longer screw of the same 8-32 thread.

No. The SDC SP50 is a 50mm spindle catalogued under door controls, a lock trim component rather than cabinet hardware. The Schaub 656 Fair Isle is a cabinet pull that mounts with 8/32 screws, 1 inch long. The two are unrelated parts and neither substitutes for the other.