Solid ash scooped heart cabinet knob in the Unfinished finish, front view

Scooped Heart Cabinet Knob, Solid Ash

Unfinished
£5.00
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Solid ash scooped heart cabinet knob in the Unfinished finish, front view
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  • Solid ash scooped heart cabinet knob in the Unfinished finish, front view
  • Solid ash scooped heart cabinet knob, front view
  • Back of an unfinished scooped heart cabinet knob showing the base and the threaded metal insert, with an Orange knob and the mounting hardware behind
  • Unfinished solid ash scooped heart cabinet knob seen at an angle, with the base visible behind it
  • Scooped heart cabinet knob in the Orange finish seen at an angle, with the base visible behind it
  • Scooped heart cabinet knob in the Orange finish on a white background, showing the deep carved scoop
  • Unfinished solid ash scooped heart cabinet knob seen from the front, showing the deep carved scoop
  • Unfinished and Orange scooped heart cabinet knobs beside the mounting hardware, on a grey background
  • Dimensioned drawing of the scooped heart cabinet knob: 44 mm wide, 44 mm high, 22 mm deep, 13 mm base
Scooped Heart Cabinet Knob, Solid Ash

Scooped Heart Cabinet Knob, Solid Ash

£5.00

A heart-shaped cabinet knob with a deep scoop across the face, 44 mm across, carved from a single block of solid ash. Sold individually, in twelve finishes.

The hollow starts wide at one lobe and sweeps down to nothing at the point, so the two halves of the heart are not the same depth — one side stands proud and catches the light while the other falls away into shadow. The scoop is deep enough to take a whole fingertip, which is what makes this the easier of our hearts to pull on a stiff drawer. It has a definite up and down: fitted on its side it stops reading as a heart at all.
Product details

A heart-shaped cabinet knob in solid ash, 44 × 44 mm, with a deep scoop carved across 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: 44 × 44 mm (1.7″ × 1.7″), carved
  • 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 heart upright with the point down.
  4. Finish with a quarter turn of a screwdriver — no more. Overtightening pulls the insert out of the wood.

The scoop is not symmetrical, so this knob has to be set the right way up and level — a few degrees off shows more here than on a plain heart, because the shadow inside the hollow moves with it. Hold it in position through the last quarter turn. 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. The scoop runs out to nothing at the point of the heart, and that last few millimetres is where the wood wants to tear — it is cut with the grain and then finished by hand. Because the hollow cuts down through the block, the deep end shows end grain and takes the oil darker than the raised side; on the coloured finishes the two halves read as two tones of the same colour.
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.

A cloth reaches the whole of this hollow, so nothing collects in it. Unfinished knobs have no coating and darken where the finger lands — here, always the deep end of the scoop.

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