When they did the limited 4005XC short scale , some were saying it was a Shaftesbury copy.
It was, in a way.
It happened to other big names. When Gibson made the Slash signature Les Paul they meticulously copied his Appetite For Destruction guitar, which was a replica/knockoff/faker with a Gibson logo, not a real Gibson
So people are paying $3-4K for what in effect is a copy of a copy. Fender did something similar in 1982, when they examined Japanese-made copies, some of which were far superior to late 70s Fenders, and re-learned from them how to make good Strats again. So some of Fender's best vintage reissues were acually replicas of east Asian knockoffs.