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When you find it necessary to cut or rip large pieces with a circular saw, a handy guide helps keep the cuts straight. I use mine mostly for cutting gable ends for cabinets to length, as well as, trimming doors, etc.
This guide is simply a 4' or 8' strip of 1/4" plywood with a 2" ripping on one side. The circular saw is placed on top of this guide and slides along the 2" ripping to cut the correct width of the base of the guide. The guide is clamped on top of the door, which is laying on a couple of sawhorses. Here are pictures of mine:
Notice that the blade guard is held up with a wedge and that the plywood on the bottom of the guide, underneath the saw, comes out flush to the inside of the blade. This way you can mark your door or whatever piece to be cut and the edge of the guide will be your cut line, no measuring required from the saw base edge to the cut.
