I was wondering what type of blades people have out there. What are better the carbon fiber, stock blades, or i believe the wooden blades. If anyone out there can give me some advise on if i should upgrade or should i just stay stock....

I'm still flying stock/standard blades.
But I'd really want to use the other blades (much tougher, more agility, better handling and performance i think), but i don't have the bladegrips yet.

Was thinking about changing to the BladeCX2.com grips, but hear/read they're so crappy (unbalanced, need user modification, but most important HEAVY!). Also thought about the Esky/Graupner bladegrips, but they didn't go with the E-flite Aloy/Alu parts and didn't want to change these.
I'm waiting for KR's Hobbies (www.xtremecx2.com / www.krshobbies.com) to release the Xtreme bladegrips, which will work with the E-flite stock AND Aloy/Alu parts (ordered another bunch of upgrades from them as well).

What grips are you guys using in combination with what blades? (An extention of the question/poll of the thread-starter)

the toughest blades for these heli's are supposedly the Xtreme blades from miracle-mart.com

And the blade grips.

I`m using the extreme blades from miracle-mart and the ali blade grips.

That's an excellent look. I hadn't seen them until now. Thanks. I'm still running almost entirely stock parts. I found that the parts last a lot longer when I quit running into things - like the ground. I did go with upgraded boom, skids, upper flybar head, bearings and heat sink - and of course my flybar mod.
Soloboss

Looks really good!
Those grips fit on E-flite aluminium parts? I've seen grips for the Lama v3/v4 will those fit as well? (I remember reading somewhere that you needed different linkages to use these?)

See that is the look I want to get to... My thing is I bought a falcon 3d and crashed it badly, and then I realized i was in over my head to begin with... So I bought my CX2 and like soloboss, Crashed it (several times)... But now getting the hang of it.... I have the ali inner shaft for it cuz the orginal one broke. And now i just ordered the xtreme boom and skids, with the canopy and shortened flybar for it... And eventually i will upgrade blades and all that when im not crashing it as much.... :-)

ohhh yea.. I ordered that from krshobbies.com Not to bad of a place.. We'll se how quickly they ship also

Just a few more pic`s for you to look at.

I have the AL MH blade grips and use the extreme blades on the bottom
for lift and the MH blades on top for manuverability...I think that combo
is a little better than extreme on both upper and lower...John H.

rshermanking, where did you get the blade grips and carbon tailboom?

Hi ksmith61 go to the cx mod guide on this forum you will find all shops and web sights you will need to up grade
your heli.