Is stripping necessary?

Canvassing your thoughts on the best way to handle the following situation:

I have a 1920's californian bungalow that I am in the process of fixing up. I am looking at painting the exposed rafters and the associated linings, and the verandah beams. All have previously been painted with 2-3 coats of oil based lead paint and 2-3 coats of acrylic.

Most of the paint appears to be solid (tested with several parallel cuts of the stanley knife and the scraper). Some of the rafter ends have delamination between the acrylic and oil based paint and there are some small patches of acrylic that have cracks in it but still relatively well adhered.

So what would you recommend for a quality lasting job and what would be your method of attacking it?


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