I recently took a hollow form to our club's monthly instant gallery. It is a squatty shape and I made a collar and ball on top (rather than a finial). I glued the assembly together. When standing at the instant gallery table, one of the club members was trying very hard to get the 'lid' to come off, to which I responded, it doesn't come off. He came back with, 'it isn't much of a box if you can't take the lid off'. Ok, point taken, but it wasn't intended to be a box. I know the reality was that he wanted to stick his finger inside, as we all like to do :-)

So, my question to this forum is, should collars and finials always be removable from hollow forms? Can't wait to hear your answers!