I am working on my scoring for batards, the single long cut. I know the slash should be made at a 30 degree angle to the bread, but how deep? I have been doing a half inch, but maybe that is too deep? I have also taken to just holding the razor blade in my hand because half the time, it falls off the lame while I'm making the cut, and that's just annoying. Which means then, that it's no longer a curved blade if I'm holding it in my hand. But I've never understood the curved lame blade anyway, especially if we're only use thing corner of the blade anyway. Can you explain that? Thank you.

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