Thanks for the help everyone, I decided that the approach of using a 45 degree part circle with the radial gradient on each end looked the best.

--Alex

Thanks for the reply, I also have successfully made a gradient part-circle that did it. However I was just wondering with as powerful as Inkscape is, if maybe there isn't some more advanced way to do this. Like stroke a path with a thin line stroke with the gradient we have, that will ''bend'' at th...

Hello all, my problem is proving to be rather troublesome. Basically what I'm wanting is an individual shade on each stroke, but with combined edges. Let me explain with pictures. Basically I'm wanting a box that looks like a pipe on the edges (like a bevel), like this: http://i51.photobucket.com/al...