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Geeman,

My pleasure. Wanted to add an excerpt from a communication with Mr Ingram from back in January 2019. I had asked him how he came up with the design of the Spey. His response,

"I ran across a book by MH Cole on skinning knives and the Spey is a take off on one of those.
I've used it for everything cutting rib bones off fish fillets to field dressing whitetails. It works.
Seems it is familiar enough in style to become especially popular with primitive weapons hunters.
Spey was one of the first with a single finger cut out, and because it added greatly to a secure grip,
it now appears on a number of models."

Perhaps some of the other members here can comment on the Cole book, as I'm unfamiliar with it.
The man does not seem to be able to make an unattractive knife!

Dan