Actually I don't think I read the OP carefully enough before sperging out about choils; it sounds like you're looking for knives that have a forward guard in the blade but the handle doesn't extend that far forward? I'm not sure if there's a particular name for those, but if you look up paracord handle knives or knives that people often wrap with paracord, those are usually like that. The reason being that most fixed blade sheaths grip the handle, but a paracord wrapped knife needs a sheath that grips part of the blade. Drop forged knives also tend to have this design choice since you can integrate a thick hilt by drop forging. Also if you haven't heard of Busse knives, most of them are like that because of their "talon hole."
