I wanted to say hi and thank you for letting me join your forum. I have been turning pens for just over 12 months and loving every minute. I also enjoy this community that I have found myself in.
Morning Stephen welcome from the other side of Australia,already you are blessed living in a state that has great resources of wondrous timber. This your first displayed pen is clear and clean so you have the basic abilities and desires to achieve more.
As mark said, we have a bunch of nice Aussies in here but also a big bunch of good folks for many other places around the world, particularly USA, Canada and UK.
Tells what sort of woods you have local to you and if available and where you get your woods from.
Pics, oh yes, we all here love to see pics, in fact, we have a saying, "no pics, didn't happen...!"