The ubrella works good to keep you dry, the sword is good for close quarters if needed had to sharpen it, but for the price its a great buy.Would you recommend this to a friend? Yes

As far as the umbrella goes, it's probably the best quality umbrella I've ever bought - very sturdy and nice looking, but this is BudK and we shop here for swords not umbrellas. The sword is very short, not nearly the length of the umbrella handle. It came dull - extremely dull. It's actually the dullest knife I've ever bought from BudK. And if you bang around or swing around the umbrella you can hear the knife banging up against the sides of the metal. The umbrella's nice though, and I've sharpened up the sword a bit, though it's going to take many more hours to sharpen it to good defense standards, it's still a nice umbrella to use and fun to know that I have a weapon hidden away in there.

The umbrella probably won't stand up to much wind considering it has no latches for opening or closing. You simply push the umbrella open and mild tension holds the umbrella open. Regardless, I didn't buy the Sword Umbrella for rain protection. I wanted the protection provided by the hidden blade. Don't be fooled by the picture. The blade is exactly 15" long. The sharpened edge is only 13" long. The blade has some weight to it so it isn't totally unusable for defense. However, the edges are extremely dull...not much sharper than my letter opener. I hope to remedy this with my Dremel and sanding bit. It's too coarse for my Budk fine knife sharpener and I don't want to spend another $13 for a fine/coarse Budk knife sharpener. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!!!