The issue is carbides. Although 3v is a low carbide volume tool steel, it’s still got plenty of insanely hard, tiny vanadium carbides, that don’t get cut by conventional abrasives, which is why Nate suggested silicon carbide tool and die stones. They help, but the process still sucks. Simple carbon steels like 26c3 are wicked easy to finish, as there’s no carbide formers in it beyond carbon, which by abrasive standards ain’t very hard. Even chromium carbides aren’t all that bad, with the right abrasives, which is why alloys like CPM154 get used for mirror polishes.
If you don’t cut the carbides, they stick out as you erode the steel matrix around it, and it looks crummy. So, to get PROPER mirror finish akin to what Richard pulled off with his blade above this post, you’re faced with progressive grits of silicon carbide and/or diamond, as high as you can manage, and then the chore of finding buffing compounds that will work the same way.
Which is why no one does this.