I recently bought a 1/4 hollow Joseph Elliot 11/16 silver-steel razor with barber's notch and nice bone scales. I have bleached and polished the scales, cleaned off all the rust and, finally, honed the edge to perfection. Today I had my first good shave with it and it is likely to become one of my favourites.

The honed edge, about 1 mm. wide is now like a mirror and completely free of pitting, but though the whole blade is now bright, I'd like to remove all trace of pitting. I've made some progress just using abrasive paper (3M Fre-cut) backed with a half-cork but it would take several hours to get rid of all the pitting that way.

Can anyone recommend the best way to bring the sides of the blade back to a glass finish?

Thanks.