Mike Wooldridge Professional Re-Tipping Guide

[The Artful Dodger]

some people tap the tip with a snooker ball to "bed the tip in", never used a hammer though

Used to do that myself until I realised that I was not hitting the tip in the same way that I strike the cue ball - thats the point where I having put the tip on would play a few sessions, wait till it started reshape itself and then re-trim and reshape and hey presto..good to go.