Since few of these woods are all that scarce, I suspect that once the demand picks up suppliers will start to hunt them up. I can get persimmon, locust, and Osage from a local supplier, and some other unusual woods too. Quartered oak is pretty easy to find, and makes great guitars. Most hardwood yards will have cherry, maple and walnut. Local yards also tend to have butternut, walnut's softer cousin, which is good for liners, blocks, and Classical necks, as it's very similar in it's properties to cedro. Other stuff can sometimes be gotten from fire wood piles, like soft shell almond (in California) and American hornbeam around here. If you keep your eyes open you can find some really nice 'local' wood pretty easily.
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