Question about making a ring into a necklace

[RudyC8]

Hi,
I've never posted but was hoping to get some advice. My grandmother just gave me her engagement ring. She is long divorced and has wanted this ring out of her house for a long time. It has no sentimental value, negative sentiments actually, and she said I can do whatever I want with it. It's not my style as a ring, and it has the negative connotations anyway. I don't know the size, maybe half a carat or less but I'll be keeping the diamond.
I would like to have a necklace made, possibly a pendant in an interesting setting, something other than just the solitaire but I'm not sure. The band is simple, 14K yellow gold from the late 1950s.
I have literally no experience dealing with jewelers. Am I best off just going into a store and somehow trading the setting towards the cost of a pendant? Or should I have the diamond removed, sell the setting online and then separately go to get the diamond set in a pendant?
I would appreciate any suggestions, thank you.

 

[KaeKae]

You have some good questions. I would suggest using the Report Concern button up top and asking the mod to move this post over to the Rocky Talk section, where more posters will see it. Good luck!

 

[loves_stones]

You could try having the ring smelted, see if it can form part of the setting for the pendant, if there's enough of it to go around. I'd, personally, keep the stone, instead of trading it in. Despite the bad memories attached to it, it still is grandma's. But that's me, of course, I'm a sentimental fool!

Hope to know what happens after this thread's moved!

 

[Mico]

Maybe having a nice bezeled setting with some milgrain would be nice.

Do you have a picture of the setting or stone?