Buying materials

To buy sheet metal and long rods, you go to a hardware yard and hop your way through characterfully unstable piles of metal. You find a delivery guy, let him strap everything onto his pick-up bike and then sit on top, ready to be pedaled to your studio together with your shopping.

To buy clay, you go to a town full of potters (like Bhaktapur) and ask one of them to divert some of his stash to your rucksack.

To buy plywood, you repeat the circus act explained above.

For smaller stuff, you get yourself a bike.