Meet Your Maker: Jeff and Susan Haskett, Red Branch Crafts

(Caroline Foty's first fountain pen was a 1970s Sheaffer No Nonsense that still writes perfectly. Since she discovered pens by independent makers, she wants "one of each, please" and wants to meet all the makers. Maybe you do, too. She lives in Baltimore with pens, cats, and all kinds of fiber arts supplies.) When Jeff Haskett decided to start a “business to pay for a hobby,” what to call that business was never in question. “My great grandfather had cherry orchards in Oklahoma called Red Branch. My grandfather, after his chemical engineering career, had a peach and pecan orchard in Texas with the name, I used to go there in the summer. When I started brewing beer I called it Red Branch Brewery.” The brewing setup was sold off to buy a lathe and tooling for the new pen hobby. “I’m a theater guy, I’ve worked in entertainment since college – sets, lighting, audio – my creativity got poured into that. Now I’m more in management, I do event production for an agency. The creative side has…