Solid ash dimpled oval cabinet knob in the Unfinished finish, front view

Dimpled Oval Cabinet Knob, Solid Ash

Unfinished
£5.00
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Solid ash dimpled oval cabinet knob in the Unfinished finish, front view
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  • Solid ash dimpled oval cabinet knob in the Unfinished finish, front view
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  • Dimensioned drawing of the dimpled oval cabinet knob: 60 mm wide, 40 mm high, 22 mm deep, 13 mm base
Dimpled Oval Cabinet Knob, Solid Ash

Dimpled Oval Cabinet Knob, Solid Ash

£5.00

A scalloped oval cabinet knob with nine dimples drilled into the face, 60 mm wide, cut from a single block of solid ash. Sold individually, in twelve finishes.

The dimples are set out in a diamond around a centre point, each one rounded out rather than left as a drilled hole, so the face reads as texture instead of decoration. It is the one knob in the range you notice with your hand before your eye: the fingertip drops into a dimple and stays there. Wider than it is tall, it sits well on a drawer front or a cupboard door.
Product details

A scalloped oval cabinet knob in solid ash, 60 × 40 mm, with nine dimples drilled into the face. Sold individually, in twelve finishes.

In the box: one knob with the threaded metal insert already fitted, and one M4 × 30 mm screw.
Dimensions and specifications
  • Wood: solid ash, cut from a single block, no glued joints
  • Face: 60 × 40 mm (2.4″ × 1.6″), with nine dimples
  • Total depth from the door: 22 mm (0.9″)
  • Base: 13 mm
  • Tolerance: ±1 mm
  • Mounting hole required: 4 mm
  • Fits door and drawer fronts up to 24 mm thick
  • Included: one M4 × 30 mm screw, threaded metal insert fitted in the knob
  • Weight: 30–40 g, depending on the piece of ash
  • Finish: ADLER Legno Dura-Öl, an oil-based finish — ten colours plus Oiled. Unfinished is bare sanded ash, with no coating at all
  • Sold individually
Mounting
  1. Check that your door already has a mounting hole. If not, drill a 4 mm hole through the front.
  2. Pass the M4 × 30 mm screw through the hole from the back of the door.
  3. Thread the screw into the metal insert in the knob and tighten by hand, holding the knob level.
  4. Finish with a quarter turn of a screwdriver — no more. Overtightening pulls the insert out of the wood.

The pattern of dimples is symmetrical along both axes, so the knob looks the same either way up — what matters is that the long axis stays horizontal. It is 60 mm wide, so check the clearance to the edge of a narrow drawer before you drill. If your door is thinner than 24 mm, the screw will stand proud inside the insert; that is normal and does not affect how the knob holds.
Materials & workshop

Wood: solid ash, single block. Hardware: threaded metal insert and M4 × 30 mm screw.

Eleven of the twelve finishes use ADLER Legno Dura-Öl, an Austrian oil-based finish. It leaves a matt, open-pored surface — the colour sits in the wood rather than on top of it, so a green knob still reads as ash and not as painted board — while resisting water and household chemicals the way a varnish would. The oil is certified to EN 71-3 for the migration of heavy metals, and to DIN 53160-1 and 53160-2 for saliva and perspiration resistance. The twelfth option, Unfinished, is bare sanded ash with no coating; it is the palest of the set and darkens with handling.

Cut, shaped, sanded and finished in our own workshop in Roman, Romania. Each of the nine dimples is cut and then worked round by hand so the rim has no burr and nothing catches a fingernail. Drilling into end grain and side grain in the same face means the dimples take the oil at slightly different rates, which is why some read a shade deeper than others — that is the wood, not a fault. On the coloured finishes the pigment pools slightly in each dimple, so the pattern shows darker than the surrounding surface.
Care

Wipe with a dry or barely damp cloth. The oil finish resists water and household cleaners, so no special product is needed and none is recommended.

Nine dimples are nine places for dust to sit; a dry brush clears them in a second, a cloth does not. Unfinished knobs have no coating and darken with handling, and the dimples darken first because that is where the fingers land.

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