Fixed blades with a guard and pommel
Guard and pommel are the fittings makers name at the two ends of a fixed blade's handle: the guard in front of the grip and the pommel at its butt. Buck writes the two as a pair with one metal, Böker calls its front fitting a "hand guard," and Case's Mini FINN Hunter page names an "Aluminum guard and end cap."
Makers name the guard by its metal, and Böker and Buck put it among a knife's safety features. Böker's page for one fixed blade describes a "protruding and stout hand guard" that "is made from brushed stainless steel," and its page for another says "The jimping on the spine and hand guard increase safety while working." Buck's choosing guide asks, under safety features, "For a fixed blade, would you prefer a larger blade guard?"
CIVIVI lists "Handle Material: G10, Nickel-Silver Guard" for its Cloud Peak. Kershaw's anatomy page calls the blade's unsharpened portion between the grinds and the handle the ricasso.
At the far end of the grip, Böker says the blade of one of its stag-handled fixed blades "runs completely through the grip and tapers toward the pommel," a construction Böker calls a tapered tang. Buck changes the pommel's metal by model: "aluminum pommel/guard" on its Classic and Heritage 100 Series catalog pages, "steel pommel and guard" on the Selkirk and "brass pommel and guard" on others.
Buck says its 100 Series pommels first screwed onto the bolt and were tightened with "an aluminum barrel-nut plug," and that today "a hole is drilled into the pommel, through the steel tang" for a rivet. Case's Mini FINN Hunter page says each knife is "hand assembled from blade to end cap."
The word guard also names other things. Hogue's Extrak page lists "Includes Nylon Blade Guard" apart from its sheath, and Hogue sells "Black Nylon Blade Guards" as a pack for the Expel scalpels. Gerber's Doubledown page lists an "Overstrike guard" beside "Baton jimping" without describing it. On folders, Böker says that once the blade is open, "the flipper nose usually acts as a finger guard."
The guard and pommel's place on a whole knife is walked through in the parts of a fixed blade knife.