I have come up against a great deal of flack over my shoot-outs & comparisons !!!
I'm truly sorry, I just don't know of any more basic way to show a customer how something is a better value.  
My method is to look at the competition, pick it apart and show the weak-points. If I see any strong-points that I am not already doing, then I simply put it on my product.  I'm not afraid to be called a copy cat. I want to build the best guitar for the best price that you can find out there. I'll do the all comparison work for you!!
Naturally, I will always strive to find as many new innovations as possible, I go the extra mile to come up with better design ideas.
Yes, The PRS guitar is a well made instrument, however it is no better made than the Baker,  Baker only produces 450 guitars a month & PRS makes more than 100 a day. Baker is a smaller tighter company with a much lower overhead.  That's why Baker can throw in all those beautiful cosmetic extras that PRS charges so much for. 

You won't see any FULL COLOR, full page Baker Advertisements in Guitar Player, Guitar World etc etc. Consequently those magazines will rarely if ever give Baker a mention. But those ads cost as much as $18,000.00 a month and who do you think pays for that $216,000.00 a year per magazine.  Do the math it's staggering!!!!!!                 Read About Magazine Reviews

The main reason to buy a Baker has nothing to do with price or cosmetics.

The main reason to purchase a Baker is that they play better & stay in tune better because they offer several options that PRS will NOT do. Ebony Fingerboard & Tune-O-Matic Bridge. The Ebony fingerboard reduces finger fatigue, it feels great on your fingers and it's hardness adds a percussive quality to the sound. The Tune-O-Matic bridge is a 2 piece fully adjustable bridge that PRS has not used since 1991.

The Tune-O-Matic bridge is the main reason that the Les Paul has had such a successful run.  The Tune-O-Matic bridge is made up of 22 different pieces that require a lot of time to assemble. The Tune-O-Matic  bridge costs a lot more to install than a wrap around because you have to drill twice as many holes and you have a lot more to adjust. The Tune-O-Matic Bridge is standard equipment on all Bakers, Quicksilvers, Abstracts & the rest of the World's Best Guitars.

It escapes me why PRS went to the expense to come out with a proprietary bridge that uses the highly inferior wrap around technique on their $3,000.00 and up guitars. It escapes me why PRS can't even spend the extra 30 to 40 dollars it costs to bind the guitar like all the Bakers are bound.  The nice thing about body binding is that it can be fixed by replacement as opposed to if you put a dent in the edge of your PRS it cannot be fixed.

I have a real major  problem with the fact that PRS will not use an Ebony fingerboard. Everyone knows that a premium guitar should come with a premium Ebony fingerboard. Even Gibson offers Ebony on some of their $3,000.00 and up guitars.

WARNING !!!!!!!!

Be extremely careful because most of the Gibson reissue guitars are overpriced renditions of older cheaper model Gibson's. So just because you choked up  a whopping $12,000.00 for that Clapton 335 or an in-frigging-sane  $33,000.00 for a Jimi Page double neck or $6,900.00 for that insanely overpriced 1959 reissue these guitars are all standard with Rosewood fingerboards.  Rosewood costs less than 5% of what Ebony costs and it's much easier to work with and install frets into.

It just doesn't look the same, feel the same or even sound the same.  Always look for an Ebony fingerboard unless you are using a soap bar pickup or perhaps a different single coil pickup.  That's the only time I ever recommend Rosewood !!!!!

Read The Comparison Below     PRS wins a couple of things
But the Baker delivers way more for 1/3 the price of the PRS.

Both PRS & Baker Guitars are made on CNC Machines. Even those old original Gene Baker guitars that used to sell for $4,000.00 were also made on CNC Machines. Don't be fooled by photos of some guy in a catalog carving a body. It really grinds my gears when I hear some know it all moron salesman tell a customer that "These guitars are hand made"

I guess it does take a hand to push a button to start the CNC Router.  Just in case you have been in deepest darkest Africa for the past 10 years and don't know what CNC means.  It means Computer Numerically Controlled.  A CNC Router can make a guitar body in minutes where it would take a craftsman hours & hours.  A craftsman will pay attention to the details of the wood grain, If he's any good he will marry the woods that sound the best together, he will position the wood so that an occlusion will fall inside a pickup route or under a pickguard. In other words he will give a $hit.  CNC Machines just don't give a $hit. But they serve their purpose in keeping costs to a minimum.  Bakers, Gibsons, PRS, Fender, ESP, Ibanez, Washburn, Yamahaha are all made on CNC machines. Nothing wrong with that as long as the price reflects it.  Fenders are cheaper and better today than have ever been in 50 years. I personally am not a huge Fender player myself. But I must comment, Fender is a company that offers excellent value. In fact as long as you don't go crazy on price with a Fender custom shop model you cannot go wrong. I always highly recommend the artist model Fenders, They hold value better than any other models and 99% of the time the quality and components are better than the standard models. Gibsons have gone through the roof in price because Gibson thinks that a customer will think it's a better instrument if it costs more. The sad sad very sad thing is Gibson is right. Many people spend a small fortune on Gibson's because they assume it must be better because it costs so much more. 

 Ed Roman says "Smoke & Mirrors."  I have a few other choice words to say but in the interest of not being blocked by school computers, I'm going to have to settle for "Smoke & Mirrors"  (school computers block websites that use profanities that is why I use a dollar sign ($)  for an S in the above paragraph.

Many people become privately disillusioned with Gibson. They don't always admit it, because they might still be trying to sell theirs, or at least keep the value as high as possible on the one they bought. Usually after the person has sold it he will give you a more truthful rendition of whether or not he really liked it.

Below is a comparison between a PRS custom and the Baker B1. The quality of the PRS is excellent. The Baker wins primarily on price, components & options. PRS will have a higher resale value but that's what huge advertising will do.      (Gibson Comparison Click Here)
I always say that if you care too much about resale value it means you aren't buying the guitar for yourself. You are buying it for the next guy. So naturally you won't keep it because you didn't buy it for yourself.  I say buy what YOU want don't buy what you presume the next guy will want.