Well the Emerson is back among the living. Stubborn individual that I am, I took another whack at it. Following Jeff Clark's suggestion I took the edges down to 10 degrees on my 1" belt sander (deep bevel now). I then moved to the slack belt and put a convex edge on it then finished it off by stropping it with green rouge. It's now as sharp as most of the Benchmades you get from the factory. Still couldn't get it as sharp as my Sebenzas but it's acceptable.
Thanks for all the input!
Thanks for all the input!