Sadly, no.
This spell repairs a single break or tear in an object you touch
But any DM who doesn’t allow this is a fun vampire.
There should totally be an upgraded version. Like you cast the spell onto an object. Then you can damage, destroy, mutilate, burn or maim the object anyway you want. Then, when you cast the spell again, the object returns to how it was before the spell was cast. Bonus points if it returns to its original position if it’s within X feet.
Nothing is stopping you from casting it multiple times
Now i’m imagining someone spending several minutes meticulously re-adhering each individual shred of cheese back to the block, each one taking 6 second
Grab fancy bottles of wine that are empty, fill with crap wine, reaffix the seal using mending. Move from town to town selling.
Or at least that’s the theory. The real fancy wineries probably have some sort of arcane seal that mending won’t repair.
Same thing with letters. Break the seal, read/replace contents, reseal.
Mending can be really handy.
Oh absolutely. But I mean that I don’t think it could unshred cheese using RAW. That’s a lot of breaks, not just one.