Knurled Spacers. Why?

[Bartleby]

This would be the way to make the deluxe scout knife different than the regular scout knife....

 

[waynorth]

This would be the way to make the deluxe scout knife different than the regular scout knife....

An excellent theory.

 

[Ramrodmb]

Purely for aesthetics.
imo

 

[tongueriver]

Purely for aesthetics.
imo

That's my vote.

 

[Getting older]

The "Strike a Match" does make sense.
They still made the "Strike Anywhere" matches when that knife was made.
Maybe they thought the Boy Scouts (and perhaps even some adults?) would prefer to strike their matches on the knife, rather than take a chance of a piece of burning phosphorus or whatever it was they used being stick under the thumbnail?
My younger brother claimed that hurt like a son of a (the proper name for a female dog), when it happened to him.

It does.Been there...