Disclosed is a hand held, cordless electric, coping saw, which has a "U"-frame with a handle at one end of the "U". A battery and motor power the saw. The blade of the saw is endless and is round cylinder-type flexible blade trained in a generally rectangular loop about four wheels, one mounted in each corner of the "U", three of them idle wheels and one of them functioning as the drive wheel. The drive wheel is located at the handle end corner of the "U". At the other end of the "U", the frame has a "floating" corner piece housing one of the idler wheels and being spring biased away from the main part of the frame to provide saw blade tensioning.